CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 263, 17 October 1884, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do net hold oureelrw rc«pon»lb!o for the opinion* expressed by our correspondent*.)

BOROUGH FEVER NURSERIES.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—One of the most pressing questions which should engage the earnest attention of the Borough Council, I conceive, is the sanitary condition of the town, and yet there is scarcely a subject connected with the government of the borough to which that body gives a smaller amount of consideration. Through the inaction, or supineness of the Council, every householder is allowed to act in respect of sanitary arrangements pretty well according to his own sweet will. The necessary result of this is that, in numerous parts of the borough, the atmosphere is posL tively poisonous, and unquestionably hastens the death of numbers of persons suffering from chest and lung diseases, and is danger* ons to all who are not physically robust. In most of the streets the houses have no drains, and their sewage water is permitted to flow wherever it is led by the law of gravitation, emitting exhalations of the most noxious kind, It is a great reflection on our civilization, that in the principal, and several of the bye-streets, a pedestrian cannot walk without having his olfactory nerves shocked with sickening stenches, which a little vigilance on the part of the borough authorities might easily remove. One of the principal reasons for this state of things is, I understand, the overwork of the officer who is appointed nominally to look after the health of the borough. Nothing short of regular house to house visitations by the Health Officer can be expected to secure cleanliness in the borough, and until that officer be compelled to give sufficient time to perform such a duty we cannot hope for an abatement of the nuisance, a thing to be dreaded by all who are not blessed with an iron constitution.— l am etc., Historicus.