CORRESPONDENCE.
.— o *»* We are ('i'.^vis of affording every reasonable facility for ii:.' m cusislon of public subjects; but it must be umies-.s: »» I that w« are In no way responsible for the opinion-, expressed by correipondcnta. PREVENT:) , IS BETTER THAN CURE. To thk Edito:: o:* thb Nelson Evening Mail. Sir — No '■'•:.;*er is a cry of pleuropneumonia rais-.-:;, <,r any other infection that touches our ;> fleets, then by universal outcry v;o nv.: (•> be bound in the strictest bonds of {]•-•.•■■ ;*.;itiaa ; but as the matter now in Ikui •. i.; o.ily the ifltr«oduction of a severe fon-s of Scarlet Fever from the South, whirlr ii; already reported to have cost many ii . . s, it is nobody's business. We only h< ■;•,•• a faint whisper of " Somebody ought v do something," and of cnurs^ when no sufficient precautions hiivin'/Xheci taken, we find it in our midst, we sh M till liffcour hands and ejaculate "who would have thought it!" Well, we have some nice little hotbeds for it to take rout hi, and spread it when it does come — •■•i ! first, in certain parts of Bridse-stre.-'i, and about the entrance to Toi-Toi Vall-y — and won't it be a jolly time for the dolors ! M. R. C. S. E., M.D., AND L.A H. ' "' ■— ~— *— *
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 81, 11 April 1871, Page 2
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208CORRESPONDENCE. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 81, 11 April 1871, Page 2
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