SHALL WE DRINK IMPURE WATER?

Evening Star, Issue 2928, 8 July 1872, Page 2

SHALL WE DRINK IMPURE WATER?

To the Editor. Sin, —It is a trite saying what is everybody’s business is nobody’s business. I trust, now that the municipal elections are being talked about, that the Councillors, while studying the pockets of the citizens on the gas question, will for the sake of poor humanity study their health and comfort respecting the bad and unwholesome state of the water supplied by the Company. Were they to secure the services of one of our Professors to analyse and report as to the state of the water running through the pipes, it would greatly help them in their return to their scats in the Council Chamber. Having no other supply, are wo to be obliged to drink into our systems deadly and poisonous animal and vegetable matter ? Nothing is worse to the system than impure water. This evil has been growing for months past, even during the dry weather; but now it has become worse and worse. 1 do not wish to amplify or enlarge upon it, but to introduce the subject to public notice that others may have an opportunity of speaking on what may become a serious evil to the public at large. It is high time some plan was adopted to ensure the citizens pure water for drinking purposes. Knowing that your pen is ever ready to assist in cheeking the spread of any local complaint that may generate disease, I beg a small space for insertion.—! am, &c., PUJUB WAilili.