NOT HEALTHY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 24, 12 February 1937, Page 7

NOT HEALTHY

— ^ — % m. » Certain Rubbish Receptaciei IMPROVEMENT DESIRED A pamphlet settrng out the need f®r proper covered rubbish reeeptacles in ■ the- interests. of health ia being prepared by the borough health inspeetor, Mr. C. varrell, and will be distributed to a nipaber of property-owners in Hastings. This deeision wajs axrived at by the W Hastings Borough Gouncil ' last evening as the. result of the Mayor, Mr. (JA. Maddison, xeferxing to thes questian of the suitability of rubbish reeeptacles at preseut being qsed, partleulatly in the "residential area. Beceptacles without covers in particular were the . meana of the breeding and spreading of flies aud consequeutly disease, and the. Maydr oonsidered that stepa should b« taken to improve the condition of ^rubbish receptaelea in the. borpugh,. "It is the desi.ro of the Departinent of Health that every effort should be made fo mininiise. any outbreak of an epidemic, and in Auckland and Wellington. rigid inspectionia of business pemises ar'e being carried out to s,ee that aB rubbish is removed,'* said the MayoTi He wffit ou to point out that the free rubbish collection ha.d now " been in force in Hastings, for about two yearik aud h® appealed to the people to eo-op-erate wilh the co.uncil in carrying out of th,e requirements, of tiie Dy-laws. "It is essential that tho rubbieh-tinB should be iutaet and. haye lid.s Qn,'-1 he said. "I appeal to the people to ?on.fQrm with the requirements not only in their own Interests but for the health of the town in geuerah"