FOXTON’S SANITATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1121, 12 July 1913, Page 3

FOXTON’S SANITATION.

PETITION TO THE HOSPITAL BOARD.

HEALTH OFFICER TO MAKE AN INSPECTION.

At the District Hospital Board meeting on Thursday, the local representative presented a petition from a number of residents in the vicinity of Johnston Street, which had been handed to him, praying that the health officer visit the borough and requesting that something be done to prevent the discharging of cess pits into a public drain. Mr Hornblow said that the Borough Council was the local health authority, although the Board was indirectly interested, as -infectious cases were sent to the hospital. The petitioners were of opinion that the Council did not realise the seriousness of the recent outbreaks of infectious diseases.

The Cfaairman said he thought the Board should take immediate action.

Mr M. O’Brien, district health inspector, stated that he had been to the locality frequently. There was an old watercourse, the Awahou, which he traced for some distance along its course. On Wednesday he mads another inspection. Three cases of infectious disease had come from Johnston Street. The drain was an open ditch. He also visited the backyards of several of the houses, but found no cesspits there, although there was a qin glazed-ware pipe which took away storm water from three of the houses. The only possible source of compliint was a drain from au hotel, but there was no foulness about it, and he found that no nuisance existed. Some of the infectious disease cases were contact cases, and they had not all occurred in the immediate vicinity of the drain.

Mr F. J. Nathan said a proper inspection of the Borough should be made-

The Inspector said he bad no objection to devoting a day to a thorough inspection of the Borough.

After further discussion it was unanimously decided on the motion of the Chairman, that Dr. Chesson be asked to accompany Inspector O’Brien to make a combined inspection in the Borough of Foxtou.