COOLGARDIE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4959, 23 February 1895, Page 3

COOLGARDIE.

A writer in the Lyttelton Times, referring to Coolgavdie, says:— " The town of Coolgardie is the most fclirly, stinking, filthy place that I Hiave seen on any diggings. Tlio place is a hot bed of typhoid fever, /- and no wonder. The hospital accom- *• modation is very bad-only tents—and people who use it merely go there to die." Typhoid is not the only scourge that Ims been prepared for the backs of the city people of Coolgardie. "There is another disease," according to the authority from whom we are quoting, "called 'Bargoo,' which is more disgusting if no 1 ; more deadly, than the fever. People break out in sores as large as asbilling all over their bodies and their linger-nails loosen. J should think a good deal of this is caused by eating tinned food. Everything is tinned—meat, butter, milk, fish.fruit am.potatoes anda dozen otherarticlcs offood-and I fancy this has had a | very bad effect upon the general health." But there is a bright side even to this disenchanting picture of I mining life. The climate of Coolbardie, we are told, is perfect, and ■fcestatemontwas made, it must be remembered, at the end of last month when tho stifling tropical heat, of which wo have heard so much, mightbe expected to be at its worst, "It is rather warm in the daytime," our informant admits, " but it is not too hot, and the nights are beautifully cool and clear. Fou can always do with your blankets, and .there are neither mosquitos nor fleas to disturb your rest. You can camp out anywhwe without a'tent, . and' 'wo ! never' thought of' putting PUT 6 up When. W8 were, on 'the road." i