The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1885. MAINSTREET DRAIN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 69, 23 February 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1885. MAINSTREET DRAIN.

Thb Borough workmen were today engaged m cleaning- out the drain referred to at the last meeting of the Borough Council as being a most offensive nuisance, and most dangerous to the health of the community! The steuuh today was highly suggestive of an outbreak of typhoid lever. How the City Fathers have permitted such a nuisance bo exist unchecked for so long a period is difficult to explain. To attempt to describe the horrible condition of the drain m question would he impossible. Thd worst of it is that disinfectants will tie almost futile. There is but little full for the drain, and tho pestilential compound at the bottom gives forth night and day odours that pollute the air m the vicinity and will briug disease as surely as the sun rises. We contend that if the Borough Council neglect taking instant and sufficient steps to abate this dangerous nuisance they will be held culpably responsible for any 'after efects. They are our local Board of Health, and to them is entrusted the sanitary condition of the town. A more offensive and abominable nuisance than this open ■train could not be imagined, and m our opinion all the disinfectants that can be employed; will fail to purify the semi-putrid filth that lodges there mid threatens to poison the whole community and decimate the population with disease. The operations of to day have so far only intensified the danger and increased the alarm naturally, entertained through the proximity of such a sotircs of deadly poii I, existing m the heart of the town, and, literally speaking, at our very doors.