The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1883.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4610, 13 October 1883, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1883.

Littie—if any—attention has been paid to the sanitary condition of\our Borough for some considerable time, aad we mast only thank a healthy clima/te and the beneficence of Providence in/ the way of I heavy rains and strong winrjts, for the mr I munity from disease and d/eath which we hare been fortunate enough to hare had 'granted to us,, ?h« cjpmjng summer

. threatens,' jtffting to the cold and wet spring ,we are experiencing, to be, at least^akJtryraj? >* any we have had ; and the various accumulations of decomposed vegetable matter, stagnant water, and other gatherings with miasmatic in* fluences—which are certain to exist throughout the Borough—should cause some'attempt to be* made to counteract airpibad effects likely to arise from such febrific sources. Even in the main.. streets of the Borough the*" drains are unattended to, and stagnant pools now remain, Suoh things have enough evil consequences in weather when nearly all disease is washed or blown away from the town, but when we are veiled for weeks continuously by scorch* tag weather, when the blistering rays of the sun acton the fetid dregs of our stagnant drains and flats, what will be the effect P It should not be forgotten that natural drainage is almost impossible in a town as flat as ours is, and therefore somty artificial means should be used to preserve as fat as,possible the health of the people. Fortunately our death rate has always been a light one, but that has been, as we state, chiefly owing to our frequent strong winds and heavy rains washing away all poisonous germs from the town, and this circutnstance^should not lull into a feeling of false, security those whose duty it is to «cc that necessary precautions from a sanitary point of view are taken. Were a malij^aat fever to pnoe find a home in our midst, itfjrould then be no time to look to the'health of the people, and even were our lethargic health preservers to take steps thenj the danger would not be stamped out without loss of life, and much illness and other inconveniences arising. Several necessary works in such a direction as we indicate, conld and should be at once undertaken without any very serious outlay, and even were the work done not of the most com* plete nature, it would at least mitigate the danger likely to accrue were we to receive a visitation in the shapie of any of the thousand and one "ills which flesh is heir to." We hope that the local Board of Health —the Borough Council, will not leave until too late, their close attention to this important subject, but that before the summer comes, steps will be taken to remove many of the dangers to health eves now almost festering in our midst.