THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19769, 6 November 1929, Page 15

THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

- • *» tail!-,* .-■» rut rttii ~;.: 1 ~»On O'{.'.»>«•? -ind. I wro'e a *'r a-i-irr ««ed to t!.* Ilea'.*"!. Depart-<"hr-.«ttharf fc, with !■> : t wh:.h flows tkr>'Ofk my r> : in utrvrt. My p* w»» <iimp!y thia —that tl«e »i. "s •<! eea*e>l to flow, an<i tfftt • • - a*. - wit h*<-k;nj op an-} if not •>* attended S» wooM cau«.' i A: the »bJ «f 2a»! w«-k a r*- ■- j »•»•",* of M,<* Department <*a;!e.l • • 1 in* on October Jvt h. ar.4 <-..ur- ••• y iitlffViCwM mr tr-.fr, and at •- • Mat" Jim* l acknowledged hi* D- ; T*r t" * of my let'er. Ry ) ft.- »4 i-.. Ci»*h, the stream re(fT'f'i to a'"oai!y overflows! on my £-■ ua-l. I ut »h>- otif!ru<*?ion to which I r*f<-Ttr-l to tnv >?ter to the H-ahh !>«•- i (trioent on OefoKer 1J •h. having r J th? water was relea.se4. The I r»r # of the Health Depart 1 m--n« s'atrd * h»n patting r n my wife ! fhait was .iiffiemlt to attend to the ! itvjri, for f-'tng the ** with I 7»ay a holiday to follow, it n< 11. ir-i t« get to attend to *urh l fro-; 1 a* w.«r« reported. I' Th# purport nf my letter is to establish the fart that although I wrote to one of the raoat important Department* jn( State on <)etobe- 20th, far t have i r-'iTivni no reply an a matter aSMtin; Jo"t r.i rmy*«»!f f'Ot the pub!:-- «afi ty of those above me who were alleeted j the stream referred to. Ba! I ••«• a memorandum whieh i< apparently the oateome of my rorr.pUmt, and ! tß>>id*ntal t» a vt*it of an :n«p« •-•or ' wfen ealfe.J at my h.iT.-\ Yoti will see | that I am asked tr> ronnpft a lavatory i *»sin now discharging to the street; »at> the t am alwiyi willing to do my Hp»f to a»»:«t thp •-1 1.1? law*, ami if the drain r«fprrH to i« not as it • hoaid b-p will |>!<*a*««i to have it eerrcet«4. Rot I am of tf»p opinion that a radij '-al ,-Haajf «hoiM madp in th- m«-th-t o<i* of the Hpatth tVpartrr.pnt. You trill nntf that thp ir.'-tr.a I .-n.'!i* datr4 f and nikM rpfprmrp t" n No. I .-hat#' tine property r>n which 1 rf»i<lp until 1324, and it ba« taken th« Depart- | m<-nt no !#•« than IS year* to wake up to th>' faPt that I am ro»pon«iW<> for a Krparh of a by l»<r of whiph I have not hithfrto bftn adviwd.—Yoor». «tc„ HAERY SOREXREN. Nntnib»r 4th, 1929. i Thi» eomplaint wat referred to Dr. Tpiford. Mp<lipal Offippr of Health, who ma-lp the fallowing ftatprripnt in rpplv: ; -Mr rt«»ren*Pn i* ui!<?• right in stating i that "he eotmnonifated «riih the Health Department on the 22nd ultimo, hit remmanipation r?aphing this office the following day, namely, the C."!rd ultimo. Colonel D»w«tn, Assistant Me.lieal OfSwr of Health, in my absence at the niuff. «-ommonieat«-ri with tli>- f'hriat•h'jrph Drainage Hoard on October 24th, fing out the substanpe of Mr SorenI•* o « eomplaant, and upon the j Board for any action they might eoni stder neeewary. It appears, therefore, that if there has been any delay iu ~,batmg the rau*c of pomplaint the dclay r>»sts with the ' 'irist'-hurrh Drain ag»> Hoard and not with the Health Pc | partmcnt. at stated."]