PUBLIC HEALTH ACT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8731, 4 February 1907, Page 2

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT.

, Improved Sanitation. During the last two months Mr P. , C. AVilson, Inspector, Department of Public Health, has visited all the townships, except Moawhaago, within Bangitikei County and has np hesitation in saydng that during the past five years, wheraver the Public Health Act, 1900, has been in active operation there have been great improvements generally in sanitary matters and much mors care exercised in small things that so largely tern! to promote and maintain health. He attributes this to the fact that the requirements have been kept constantly before the residents who have pail more attention to keeping their homes and surroundings in a mure cleanly condition. The want, of public facilities in small townships, to get rid of nuisances, is, however, often a great drawback. In Uliku the sanitary' by-laws have been extended and Mr AVilson hopes to sco iu r short time a considerable advance. In Maugaweka there are constant complaints as to drainage. The towuspeople there now regret that the ratepayers did not some four years ago avail themselves of Bangitikei County Council's proffered assistance and the advice of the Health Department in this matter. He hopes to see the residents combine to put their drainage into a mote satisfactory state. There has only been one case of infectious disease iu the county sine® last August which is very different from any previous year since 1900. There has also been a marked improvement in the methods of those who purvey raw food to the public. Though meat inspection iu county districts is not, and cannot at present, be rigid yet there is little cause to complain except on the score of the meat being often much too tough. Mr AVilson states that it is among milk vendors especially and bakers that there is still a great want of cleanliness.