Correspondence.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3865, 19 May 1881, Page 2

Correspondence.

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(To the Editor of the Evening St» r .) Sir, —We hare in our midst an in. sidions and infectious disease, which, if not arrested, will carry sorrow and deso*' lation into many a household, and in my opinion, in the reeking abominationi jn" the water tables, cess pools, and pfcstos so. liberally distributed throughout this particularly dirty Borough, may be traced the origin of the etil,and as m example of the potency, I oao state advisedly that one man who was lately employed to rake out one of theaiirai stricken with unaistakoabJe cholera. Hare the Borough Council the shadow of an excuse for this condition of the town? I think not. the unlimited supply of water running from the County race could be easily direct, d to flush the drains, but unfortunately, the Cooncil seems ignorant of the waja.aad means to utilize anything which would,§Mre " health to the sick." The mad flats,between the " stolen railway " reclamation works and the footpath (the road, for tome inscrutable reason was allowed to be washed away), could be made innoxious by a simple and inexpeosire mfthodriog* gested months ago. but the Council's ideas of the amenities of epistolary cofWa- ' pondence, being only equalled by their ■• executive talents, the suggestioltr was neither acknowledge to the < girer nor adopted The Board of fl ealth has published a notice of pains and penalties to be inflicted upon the sufferers by this epidemic for any infringement of ~ the Act, but how much better and wiser if this were iff conjunction: fwifhj ««K6e practical effort to c.irry the filtli from out streets, and thus remove the actire origin of epidemic disease. The late action of the Borough Council seems quite antagonistic to cleanliness. They sought to make the Queen of Beauty Q.M. Co. carry off the eight or nine sluice-heads of water proceeding from their turbine by a flume or some other conduit to lie erected at the company's cost, they did, not want the health Riving stream poured along the otherwise stagnant water courses; they had a blessing bestowed, which the oollecuve wisdom of the Council W *»t^«Weljf? fn«ed; ■ to|i««ii*S O! wise Utmneillor«, if you lack the" brains, to d- vise sanitary measures to guard the public from infectious disease, employ someone to furnish them for jo*. —ram;&c, :. • . r , ,• - / ;|' » r ..-;,'y«r B j