PELICHET BAY BATHS.

Evening Star, Issue 3575, 7 August 1874, Page 3

PELICHET BAY BATHS.

To the Editor. Sir, —I should like to call your attention to the disgraceful way in which the Pelichet Bay Baths have been mismanaged during the East year. Last season the custodian of the ath took no pains whatever in connection with them—beyond carefiilly collecting the entrance fee. The cells were in a filthy state ; the staking neglected and falling asunder. Boats were moored to the battens, which were wrenched out in every breeze of wind by the strain brought to bear on them. The attendance was bad, and no kind of order was preserved. This season'a number of gentlemen sighed an address to the Council, praying that a resident in the locality, a sober, industrious man, should be appointed to tho post. The answer was, 1 believe, ‘‘Tenders will be called for in the usual way.” Now, it is of infinitely greater importance to the public that the baths should be properly cared for, than that a few pounds should go into the municipal coffers. Thousands are spent on different improvements in the City—l have no doubt properly spent—while a few pounds are grudged to a sanitary necessity such as The jetty, also, is in a state of utter disrepair, and the steps are simply dangerous. This jetty is much used in summer by yachtsmen and boatsman, Ac, I would also humbly suggest that a boarded screening should he run up round the baths to the westward and southward. This would cost but a small sum, and the baths could then be used by ladies. I dedicate this letter to the Leith Ward Councillors,-—! am, Ac., Sanitary Reform. Punedin, August 7.