The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3878, 3 June 1881, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1881.

tfoTwilMkiirDiUa the fact that the me£eil officer of the Borough stated in a letter that he believed the disease which resulted in death to one of Mr Smith's children in Pollen street was caused by the effluvia from the defective drain on the east side of the street, the Council last aight refused to authorise the con•traction of * proper water table. The Mayor, the report in the Advertiser sajs, "expl *ined thattlte P*°P<wed w«* had been considered by the.Council some time ago, when it was resolved to defer •otion until a comprehensive scheme of drainage was prepared." So because the comprehensive scheme was not prepared, the ehddren of the jfa«ident. were, to be ■ "owed to die. But the Mayor forgot in >■ explanation *° -tat. that it was hi. ow» «Mt« t , #6te prereoted _ tfce "*Jfi" tJ J* 1" Wta« don« "h<» the matter watdiaeusied .ome time ,g O . We say that htandJii^CrianeiUre i tt a^reat measure answerable for the death of the child of Mr Smith, and the .ickneat prevalent in the locality, and that at their doors He, the blame. It is monstrous tkfct with such a statement before them

from aate#r«l **, tkat the Council, for !:5* "PB^"iWWfc •■ the p*rt of the i ** "°rt should U no action is to be Pkeiljpil j&Httße«)s can find time sit l^iaP Asit residents were '4b wait for abaot«tmx necessary works to •• ■ndertaken tUI weV rules of procedure are cotnptkd w*h as the Chairman Aa> finiii .ftiak fit to - m I pose upon tfcemaeWe*. » •oythi«R ! were wanting to show the absurdity ;if Iks siailasl af ahi r>^"*;! —* r«tor lour readers of ihe Works rCojnmUtee^tiC^ found in another

eoluma, and ask them to find* amongan the reeoMMbiMtiQßß for works to be constricted dwtaff the next year, if that* .is eoe at all v> urgent ait tk-e formafJM of tft» water table in Pollen street, law ft* of the matter is, the* Cb«iMi|ilip^S» conduct, «How 'daftet ißdOa^aaarWeZi orgeat d*msmaW the •lifciy^tiaVMllk to whom we have always gireu credit .for possessing common sense, allowing a proposal to be

rejected just because a resolution ot a fojmer meeting was on the books, dealing with the same locality; tfc«Se Keatteseen forgetting that the circumstances are altogether changed since the time when such a resolution was passed. The Major, for his own credit, should hare ruled that it was a " case of urgency,'* and taken the resolution of Cr Osborne. If we were in the position of Dr Payne Mr Smith, and others, we would at once order the required work to be done, and see whether the Council would refuse to pay'for cost—test the question whether technicalities and hair-splitting should be allowed to prevent necessary works being constructed; works not only of consequence to ther immediate locality, but to the whole township, -and probably gleeting the health of numbers of 'the -eaiepayers not only in the middle ward, but the adjoining wards of tlve Borough.