AN UNSANITARY TOWNSHIP.
The Pic ton Press says :—Dr Mason’s official report on the sanitation of Blenheim is interesting reading. He brings to light a very unsatisfactory condition of things, though not worse than was anticipated. Still, considering the surroundings in which some people seem habitually to have lived, and the daily menaces to health to which they carelessly subjected themselves, the wonder is Inspect; Typhoid Las not been his rounds long ago. It .-* - atisl'acc >i y to know that Dr Mason f void no evxdonee !u . upp >rt of the tx.e-<r) so ea_, rly sei:ml on by some, that the out hi eak arose from the consumption of oyxtere fed in dangerous proximity to sewage outlets in Picton. Uad it originated in. eating Picton oysters, it stands to reason Picton would have suffered from it worse than Blenheim, for the l ocal consumption is greater than the foreign.
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Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 6, 30 August 1901, Page 4
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149AN UNSANITARY TOWNSHIP. Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 6, 30 August 1901, Page 4
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