THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 2, 14 January 1867, Page 3

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

Now that the advancing summer has given us unmiatakeable proof of its presence in the form of several of the hottest days we remember having experienced during, a lengthened resideucela the, colony, we, feel bound to aoake ‘an allusion to. what threatens to pEove a prolific source of disease amongst us. We mean those patches of stagnant Water and decaying organic matter, which lie exposed to all the full influence ofthe blazing sun, at each extremity of the town— Carlyle-street, and . the Spit. During the recent excessively sultry weather the eflluvinm arising from these to persons residing in the viciuity of the huisahees, and indeed to ; by,, been atinpst a time when ; are. raging tor I'rsource.;. of- which i^ilirafanceßi

traceable to'tile iijialatioi 6fpbisonou* i *' impure, at* 1 V w-„:f ii Svj Tjriiiymy; vJOiT U L-.is-moßpheres.untne breath ; we think - h ,u ;jUjfc-.KJ S*;W 'T; thftfc there isTeasop the, inhabitants -of papier, may; M sufferers, in common with* others*if predisposing: permitted to exist! In-faof‘ one brtWtf cas&S c o£ diarrhoe a'lseeintb' haye occuredalready, and thesb iridisice i.l - ”i' H li&hvix cate jthe nepessitytnatexists.ior^nllmjg in the offensive-places sake of c the public health. , . ■