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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 355, 4 March 1902, Page 1

The menace to health in Christchurch does not consist now, as on the occasion ] of the former scare, of horrible collections of filth. Those were all effectually disposed of. At present the sanitary arrangements in connection with some oE the shops and business premises in the more crowded parts of the town constitute the danger which the Sanitary Committee mus°t deal with thoroughly and immediately if thev are to justify the confidence placed in them by the citizens. Only by paying the strictest attention to cleanliness can a community feel that it is doing its utmost to avert the plague. This, after all, is not a matter for the authorities alone; their efforts will be largely ineffectual unless every householder gives his personal assistance by ensuring the absolute cleanliness of his premises, both inside and out. Plague is not a thing to trifle with, and though a visitation in Christchurch is not probable, it is never an

impossibility.—Press. Another late disease is known as “ trollymania.” It has been judicially recognised, the Supreme Court having awarded £2OOO damages in a ease in which the malady was said to be contracted by being run down by a trolly on the Broadway, New Pork, last summer. The victim, one Hoyt, has since the accident been afflicted with certain hallucinations in which he imagines that ho hears the uncouth clanging of the trollies and fancies they are chasing and overtaking him. He runs wildly about, enters the house by the parlor window, and throws somersaults on the floor—very unpleasant and unseemly practises for a hitherto respectable gent of advauocd years to indulge in.