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Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1918, Page 5

A correspondent writes to .tha Wairarapa Age:—ln a recent letter I received from the Palestine front, my correspondent give* gone gruesome details of the filthy surroundings in which the native# of that part of the world live, and the habitjg of people of othe« "color" our own always seems to be an interesting topic, and usually La a subject of correspondence between friends. 1,. like many others, have studied habits of natives when abroad, but only within the last week or so has it been brought home to me in an unmistakable manner that right here in Masterton there are people living under such condttkms of filth that it would be hard to find an equal in any native village or krall. And I say, most unhesitatingly, that so long as those conditions are allowed to prevail, then rfiall we be visited with these epidemics with sickening regularity. 1 have been surprised and disgusted at the conditions under which some of the people of Mastertoa and district have been content to live. I have seen women and Children using bedding that I would not touch with a pair of tongs, and, as to back yards, well, the least said the better. My temperature goes 9| when I think of them. '