STINKS.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 1026, 29 November 1872, Page 2

STINKS.

(To the Editor of the lVestport Times) Sib—l am not an alarmist, and don't wish to frighten people unneccessarily, but I feel impelled to inform the good people of Westport that if they don't pay a little more attention to their sanitai-y arrangements during this hot weather they will suffer very much either b} r the loss of their own lives or those of their friends and childrou, or in family sickness, and payment of Doctor's bills.

A gentleman visitor told me to-day that he had encountered more stinks in walking through Westport on Sunday night, than he had met in his travels through the whole of New Zealand. As the olfactory nerves of some people are very obtuse, I will point out two or three localities whore these stinks do most abound. There is a yard by the Post Office Hotel, very bad. The ditch from Bright street Clarke's corner,towards the river, which receives the worst species of filth from the houses in that locality, is still worse, and the ditch at the corner of Lyttletou and Palmerstou street, worst of all.

It is a disgrace to any people in these days of advancement when scientific investigation and experimental results have proved the immense control which may be exercised fover disease by a little timely attention to that which is next to godliness ; that men should be allowed to jeopardizo the health and lives of their fellow creatures, by ignoring the laws of health and allowing all sorts of surface drainage, and animal and vegetable matter to collect on their premises in close proximity to where people are eating living and sleeping, and leave it thcro to decay and fill the air with its poison.

As an instance of tho utter ignorance of some people, upon the matter of disinfection and cleanliness, I heard of a townsman of ours tho other dav who, in making some alterations in his premises, turned up an old cesspool and fowl yard, which as you may easily imagine created, or rather gavo forth a most prodigious stink. What do you did ? Why he went and bought a 3s Gd bottle of eau de cologne and threw it about. He might just as well have thrown a pint of beer over it, and better still, have spent a shilling in chloride of lime and the other 2s 6d in removing tho cause.

A writer upon sanitary reform slated in an English paper lately, that the day would come when it would be just as disgraceful to have typhus lever as it now is to have the itch. My impression is that the Millenium will first sound about that day when it does come. In one particular at any rate We shall have every man doing to his neighbor as he would bo done by. Yours &c, Nosuji. * . UPPETJ TOWNSHIP SECTIONS. {To the Editor of the Westport Times.) Sir. —Some information is needed from the Nelson Government as to the limit of time for holding sections allotted in July last, without building thereon. Mr Commissioner Sharp, when asked the question, gave no verv precise answer, and the Camp officials know nothing about the subject. Many people are in doubt as to whether the timo was limited to six months from the date of allotment, or six months from the time the streets were completed. It isnotconvenientto many to build immediately, but they would do so if it was really necessary, rather than lose their sections, while others, who merely hold their sections with a view to sell them to the highest bidder, and with no intention to use for the purpose for which they were given, would be compelled to either build or sell within a certain time. Yours &c. S.F. TVestport Nov. 24, 1876.