A MENACE TO PUBLIC HEALTH.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 31, 6 February 1907, Page 8

A MENACE TO PUBLIC HEALTH.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — I listen in vain for some outcry against- the stinks in this city. It is no use crying " wolf " when the mischief is I done. Daily visits of sanitary inspectors into the back premises appear absolutely essential to bestir people to a sense of their duty. Collections of dirt 6hould be removed each day, and cleansing operations resorted to where required- in respect of drainage and sewage pipes. In many cases the flushing operations aro not satisfactorily done. Clean houses, clean shops — and compel people to pay for cleaning them, if they have no time or inclination for eeeing to the cleansing process. " At present, no one seems responsible. But what with Health Departments and sanitary inspectors, surely some definite responsibility should bo marked out for seeing that ■premises are cleansed properly. There are a few conscientious folki in the different districts, whose premises 4 are always a credit to them, but take the great majority, and one would find they need a stimulus for their efforts in the shape of a beadle, or the plague. Tho municipal plan for removal of rubbish wants revision badly. It transpires that the reguJar municipal carts are only to take away rubbish of a certain limited -quantity. Any load of rubbish of more than ordinary size has to be removed by special contract made by the owner or householder with some contractor. The J consequence is that tho said rubbish perhaps remains for days without being removed. Commonsense demands that it should be at once promply removed by the Corporation carts — and a charge' thereupon made upon the householder for' any extra cost. — I am, etc., SOAP IS CHEAP.

Mr. Walter Tricker, of Bulls, Rangi-. tikei, died last week, aged 84 years. He had resided in that district for' over j fifty years. , ; The Government contemplate taking, , under the Scenery Preservation Act, ; the renowned Okoki pa, near Urenuij (according to tho Taranaki News), one' of the finest samples of the ancient Maori fighting pa in tho Taranaki district, and of considerable historic inter--' est.i The annual match between cfiEketingl teams representing the Advances, Tax,, and Valuation Departments and the; Raikway Department is to 'be played' on I the Basin Reserve on the 21st inst. The attention of Women's Christian-;' Tempenauco Union membeta 13 directed 7 to a notice re meeting in another column!! of this issue. It has been found-t hat Mr. Lyman L. Pierce, Aixstralasian National Secretory* of the Y.MX/.A., cannot nmke hie vieit^ ■to Wellington on the dates originally 1 tfixed' upon. The visit is now arranged* 'for next Tuesday to Thursday. Mr. Pierce passed through Wellington en. route from Chrifitchurch to Auckland by this morning's train. . Samuel Brown, Ltd., advertise they aro ,n6w landing 1000 tons of Hetton coal. This coal -lias the reputation of being an' jexdellent steam maker, and is stated to bo preferred to all others by the Manawrtu 'Railway Company. A. Lindeay, Limited, aclvertiio that their half-yearly boot ealo will commence on Saturday morning at 9 o'clock nt tho shop*, Lambton-quay and Cuba-street. Teaddrs aro invited for tho supply 'of grocerict, boots, and moat for the Boy»' Training Farm, Weraroa. Details lire ad-, vertoed.