The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1883.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4448, 7 April 1883, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1883.

[pft IBtfrdngh fCotincil: has at Uifc been aroused into action in connection with a f^^i^BjHn'^hmjel)bj^o^-in nbt pro- " Tiding a^lW^^^ftib^fe^fe^th^'^h^nirf^c■ment of diseaVe within the town. The bjr-laws published by the Council are VerTiTolujninous, and treat of a variety, of matters, some of very small import; but that most important mstter, public health, teems to hare been- deemed » light one; and the feeble efforts made to remedy one or two deficiences in this respect were abandoned upon a slight opposition being offered to them. A few days ago the Council reeeired a complaint from a reeident in rths Borough that in a thickly populated part of it, pigs were tept; it was^ shewn that two cases of typhoid fever had arisen _; from ;; being? there. ; The doctor authorised.'^ firmed this statenifent,; and said that the existence bf/suehla thing was detrimental i' to, public health, it-aigniees little that peo^«>^wiw^de^;:lJpjg*gvl4ake'; every I precaution in ,sfee t matter; of keeping styes clean, Ac; the animals them* selrtl are a great nuisance, and no on« should be allowed to keep them in

districts where numbers of people reside clo*ely tqgetljkir. TJae^atness of the town, an<i|^e^iflß^(q[neiit difficult/ met with in •d^i^e^^tters,; increasea the danger, and^hop^iialte thbge in whose hands more careful than in ordi-^ as the^ local board of healtb, should take every; precaution to preclude the possibility of an outbreak of ferer in our midst, and not I^atrlid'^d^tt because a few interested persons, careless of the public health, agitate to be allowed to reap profit at the expense of the sanitary condition of the Borough. Other towns in New Zealand of no greater size than ours provide that no' swine shall be kept within their limits, and in those instances •psome of them being in , the South Island^ the danger is not so great to the residents as exists in our case. The climate not being so warm the nuisances from the fotlid smells which are given forth, are not a>great; these odours come, not only from the animals themselves, bat from the food with which they are supplied, consisting generally of refuse from houses, composed of vegetable and other matters mostly in advanced ; stages of decpmposition. It will at once be seen that warm weather has an effect on such things far from satisfactory to olfactory organs and decidedly detrimental to public health. There can be no doubt that the Borough Council should take every precaution to secure public health, and when such evils as we Irefer to, exist;' it is the duty of that body to at once cause their removal. Private interests, should not stand in the way of public benefit, and we will be very much surprised if some very decidedspteps are not at once iaken in this matter by the authorities. ,