AN UNDESIRABLE PRACTICE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 135, 8 June 1906, Page 2

AN UNDESIRABLE PRACTICE.

TO THS ETIITOB. Sir — Seeing a report" in your issue of this evening on the city's sanitation and the dairying industry, I consider the time right to point out to the authorities that there is a practice "in vogue in the city that must appear revolting to any one who givos the matter a thought. I allude to persons leaving milkcans at the street corners, thereby enlarging the possibilities of a spread of that undesirable disease known as hydatids. It is not only the milkman •who offends in this matter; baskets of vegetables, or, in fact, anything that is intended for food should be placed, beyond reach of infection of thi3 kind.' With reference to the milkcans, I suppose the reason they are left at ibo corners^or on the street is because tl-r-e • delivering tho milk cannot ta-rv the heavy cans from door to door ;* they probably take a supply in a smaller vessel, and replenish from the larger can as they 1 require it. Our City Fathers may see their way to help the milkmen to bo more sanitary by providing Ko'oKs on posts, where the milk will be out of reach of contamination. — I am, Gtc -' ... OBSERVER. .. Wellington, sth June.