IMPROVING CONDITIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 98, 27 April 1922, Page 5

IMPROVING CONDITIONS.

SANITARY ACTIVITIES IN CITY. THE HOUSE FLY MENACE. THE LAST OF THE PAM SYSTEM. The whole position relative to the City Council's public health and sanitation activities was piacol before the > Minister yesterday by the Mayor, Mi". J. H. Gun'snn. "I"also submitted to the Minister our estimates for the work of the current year," said the Mayor, who emphasised that there is still great need for vigilance by all householders and city residents in keeping their premises clean and attending to the regular dis- . posal of garbage and house refuse. - 'lt I is particularly urgent," he added, "that we should have the co-operation of the citizen,) in the destruction of rats and I house-flies. The destruction of flies is I quite as important as the campaign J against rodents, and it is a matter that Iwe are apt to overlook. T hope this I appeal to deal with flies will be heeded now and not neglected till another wave of epidomk- conditions visits us." The Mayor pointed out that the city sanitary staff is stronger now than ever iit was. nnd as a result the expenditure I on this department last year was higher ; than previously, and would be slightly ! higher still ill the present year. A I vigorous policy of inspection would bf> continued, and prosecution for neglect I in attending to sanitary precaution? would be strictly enforced. The many warnings of the past would nut be repeated for the henefit of the negligent. "A further inspection of the council's I two or three refuse tips has b?en made," i added Mr. Ounson. "and the Works Committee itself will again visit them next week to see that everything is in order, of « J hioh we are assured by the council's officers. The sanitation work of tlio city in the matter of the daily collection of refuse is proceeding satisfactorily and is considerably more general than in the past." " ; Tt will also be very gratifying to the community to know that tlie council ha* finally disposed of the last of the old nightsoil pan service. The last was re- ( placed by the water system within the ' last three months, and the old wndesirable conditions arising from 'the pan system in the city are now entirely a thing of the past. This is a srreat step forward in the public health of the < "city. With the development of the reticulation system and the drainage throughout the city being vigorously carried on, the state of public health i matters, including not only general • sanitation woTk. but drainage and other facilities, generally, will dhow a very substantial advance in the present year." The Jlavor pointed out that the council staff were keeping in close touch with t]ie District Health Office <n all matters affecting the health of the community, and by adherence, to this policy the citizens were suaranteed against any undesirable conditions arising, so far as it was humanly possible to prevent them.