SCARLET FEVER.

Evening Star, Issue 4024, 19 January 1876, Page 3

SCARLET FEVER.

To the Editor. SIR,—Dr Gillies may or may not be very ’cute in his suppositions as to how s.car’et fever, at pr sent raging in the environs of Dunedin, prop agates, but let me tell him as well as some other lea.ned Esculapians who are circolati' g the same nonsensical fear, for I can term it naught else, amongst the community at large, and more or lessVdriving tlirough fear, many weak minded into the same identical fever, that were be or they to stir up the City Corporation to do their duty in a sanitary point of view all would be for a far more advantageous result to a population such as Dunedin contains. I turned out to the firo the oth:*r morning as is usually my custom when hearing the bell, and, candidly speaking. I do think from Athol place to King street, via Hanover street, there were as many different cdors, the vilest of the vile, in that short space as the infernal'region is supposed to be full of devils I was only wishing I could have had my learned medicos, one under each arm, so that they might enjoy what was beiog so freely distilled at that ea»ly hour of the_ morning. Naturally enough I formed my own idea upon the subject, which, at the same time, I fancy is not such a dusty one at all, which was—that Drs G and B. had by special leave allowed the dormant citizens to turn adrift before they turned iu all the sewers, closets, &c , &c., which could by fair means be laid hands upon, into the public streets. Let me remark, ye noble sciolist i, even if you do posses j more “savvy,” as “John” says, than I myself, before the disease can be removed you most remote the cause which nurtures it and upon which it thrives I would go so far as to suggest that if the Corporation are not in a position to remove the obstructions to the public welfare, they might at least take the precaution to plant, in the worst localities, such as Athol place—fairly a disgrace to Scotchmen—and all such like, (if which I might mention many, the Tasmanian “ Globulus Eucalyptus ” every twenty yards apart, about five yards or so, according to the breadth of the street, from the path. If my suggestions go for naught, let me refer the “lords of creation” (vide sirs Brown) to the great benefits therefrom derived in Sierra Leone, Cape of Good Hope, and many such places where once it was death for the white man to tread, —1 am, &c., Another Eucalyptus. Dunedin, January 19.