PUBLIC HEALTH.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15707, 28 September 1916, Page 10

PUBLIC HEALTH.

TO THI EDITOR. Or "THE FM3S."

Sir,—-I read with keen interest your leader on Saturday last. There, can be no "doubt that! the Public Health Department has largely lost the public confidcnce—not without" cause, for a more effete, moribund;, inept ■ Department it- would be hard to iniaginc. Its most striking- characteristic appears to be-how not to do things. Take one instance "only. It has- had its attention' called' to the nuisance existing in the- Convalescent Home grounds near Barrington' street, and on that part 'of- the river bank where the effluent: from the Home's septic tank discharges, to say nothing of the tramway men's -convenience,, but the nuisance ' still'" Continues —a festering, nuisance, pestilential breeding plague spot. Last Sunday evening the stench was simply atrocious. Is it any wonder opidemic-s dontiriue- unabated in our midafc while ' such evils go unchecked

I do. not want to-be told."Oh, this is .the- Hcathcotc County CJounciFs business, or the Drainage-Board's, or the Hospital Board's, or the Tramway Board's. ?J or one-or other of the multifarious. bodies -upon :whicb the Department appears to east, the-burden of its responsibility. The Hoathcote'Courity is too busy dying at' the present time to care about anvthinE but its own demise. ' I understa'rd'the Public Health Department has full and overriding poTrei-s. Let" it exercise " them and .■justify its existence in this 'eompatativelv small_ matternot merely 'tell the Hcathcotc . County Council _to see the Drainage.Board. as to getting the Hospital Board to, ask the Tramway Board to consider the advisability, etc., etc.. etc. I would 'ike to know ur.dcr which thimble the Public Health An- I thcrity pea rofillv'iw:—Yours. etc.. • I PUBLIC NUISANCE, j