THOSE PIGGERIES.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4449, 9 April 1883, Page 2

THOSE PIGGERIES.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sib, —In reference to a letter sent by Mrs Stone to the| Borough Council, complaining of a nuisance existing through neighbors keeping pigs, and also a statement sent by Dr Payne, saying that typhoid fever was caused by the smell arising from them, I am sure, if that is Dr Payne's idea, he is quite wrong, as the Inspector of Nuisances visited the stye in question a day or two before Mr "AntiPork's " letter appeared, and he said the stye could not be kept cleaner, and that there was no smell whatever arising from it or the yard, but he had discovered that the bad odour arose from a neighbor's drain on the other side of Mrs Stone's. We have kept pigs for the last four yean, and have never had a complaint from;anjr • of our other neighbors, and therefore think it very hard that they should say such things now, as a member of the -^ i Stone family distinctly said that she thought her brother had caught the fever by standing in the damp in Mr Marshall's shop after the late spring tides, and I should think it very probable that he would carry the infection to his brother. By inserting the above you will greatly oblige—. - Tir/Tir.