FEVER HOSPITAL ON TOWN BELT.

Evening Star, Issue 4016, 10 January 1876, Page 3

FEVER HOSPITAL ON TOWN BELT.

To the Editor. Sin,—While reading over the report of the deputation which waited on his Worship the Mayor asking for the removal of the Fever Hospital from where it is now living erected to aouio other site, I was very much struck with the plausihilily of tho argument used by some of these gentlemen, who, for the li.st tineduring their long i- sidoiice here,"have come to the front as the conservatives cf tho dozens interests. Had these gentlemen come L Idly forward and asked that this building should be removed simply ou the ground of its being used as a fever hospital, I could quite sympathise with them, and I could have bell-vcd tlu-j were honest in their desire ; hut I would just as sco n hlive that tho might v spirits v.l o can-.0-.i tho wonderful Guj.-m several mil s through a Loud -n fog would come and remove the intended fever hospital as that the deputation’s motive yva» purely au4

simply the conserving of the citizens' rights with reference to the Town Belt. Mr Langlands remarked that there was already erected on the Belt the Lunatic Asylum find the house occupied by the Commissioner of Police, and that there in also a portion occupied as a cemetery. _ Novy, if a fever hospital being erected is an alienation of the reserves for recivation, then these other institutions arj equally so. Why, thes, has not something been done to have these removed, and show the public that, it is a rrincip'.e that is being contended for and not a personal gratification? We have not to go far to kok for the answer, which may be summed up thus : U W», the residents of Roslyn and other suburbslviug adjacent to the Town Belt; desire to express our entire disgust at the idea of a fever hospital being erected in the direction of our dwe!lings where, as we go to and from our mansions high and lifted f,ir above our fellow-:reatures, we run great risk of a stiff breeze filling our waiscoit pockets with the virus of scarlet fever. We won't; have any of your nuisances at onr doors ; but-as the il it is a common cesspool for all the drainage fiom the eminent position in which we live, a lit le trifling thing like a fever hospital can't do much more harm dosvu tbere. : ' _ In conclusion I would first point out to the citizens—especiiady those living on the Flat—the proposal of the Mayor "to wait on the Superintendent and to recjuest him to have a place built near the present hospital in Gieat King street," and the veiy ro;dy assent of Mr Lawson to this proposal. Yes, that is ju;t what is wanted : get it down on the Flat, or you may put it up on any portion of the IMt down by the Water of Leith, but not in the direction it is at present. Surely, the greencreeted mud that has lain so long at the very no«C3 of those who live not far from the present h«s:.it«d, Great King street, will be sufficient reason why all who are interested eithe.hi sanitary precaution; or the value of their property should lou-.'ly proles', against the action which in now being taken by only a few, and who, Ife-ir, will be greatly helped 'in it by the action of the Mayor.—l am, &c\, „ , D.S.G. Castle street, January 8