CLEAN STREETS

Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 148, 20 December 1916, Page 9

CLEAN STREETS

■> TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—We have read much of late of the' wonderful precautions taken by the City Council to combat the dangers from the By nuisance—which much-talked-of precautions should have been started at the end of winter instead of in the heat of summer. People, we are informed, are now being notified that they must spray all manure in stable yards and all garden manure and rubbish heaps of all lands that are calculated to encourage the congregation of flies. It is all very well to insist on this eompulsoiy spraying, etc., but, alas! in spite of this mueh-talked-of precaution, what is the City Council doing in the way of precaution in its own backyards, i.e., the streets? It is all very well to make a show of it in the main street, but what of the smaller streets ? For example, for the last five days, in this sweltering heat too, the gutters in Pipitea-street are j inviting disease of all kinds by the fact that the filth of the road—manure, dead rats in state of putrification, filthy paper, decaying vegetable matter, etc., have been allowed to collect since Thursday last, to the immediate danger of public; health. The wind of this morning is forcing the dust and germs of all sorts into the very nostrils and eyes and mouths and "throats of all ' passing. People are far safer in their own backyards from the danger of catching disease—even hi stable backyards—than in the public streets, i.e.-, the backyards of the City Council. When is tho City Council going to really bestir itself in this all important matter, not only in the main streets, but the smaller streets also? Is the life of a person in the smaller streets of less importance in the eyes of the City Council ? Let us spray. —I am, etc., '9th Beoambw*.