CITY DESTRUCTOR

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21404, 21 February 1935, Page 9

CITY DESTRUCTOR

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir, —Could you through the medium of your paper, try to prevail on the powers that govern and manipulate that smoking rubbish destructor, to abolish or abate the very real smoke nuisance? Life is hard at any time, but the cares and trials that make it so, are added to by the smoke from that detractor chimney, which is most unpleasant and worrying. Naturally, a housewife in ordinary circumstance* prides herself on the cleanliness of her home, the neatness of iier surroundings, and above all the whiteness of her laundry; but why fhould this abomination dictate as to which day she should do her washing' If the wind is in the west—no washing: if it has been in the west at all during the preceding days, everything that may come in contact with the laundry must be cleaned, failing which, marked and spotted sheets result. Open windows give us a layer of grime and dirt on all exposed parts of the room, thus causing extra work and frayed tempers. In closing, may I say that the question of extra work and dirt is overshadowed by the menace to the health of the community; as rubbish, even after being digested by the destructor is not an item of diet which m 9 v be ~Y°oTs en etc ° r hUman consu 4uon February 20, 1935. HYG IENE.