UNSANITARY PRACTICES AT MORNINGTON.

Evening Star, Issue 7420, 16 January 1888, Page 2

UNSANITARY PRACTICES AT MORNINGTON.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib,—l wish through your columns to call the attention of the Morniogton Council, or whoever has to see to the sanitary condition of tbe Borough, to the filthy and dangerous practice indulged in by so many of the residents in Morniogton, of emptying their closets in the little bits of backyards adjoining each house. When I state that the sections as a rule range from an eighth of an acre downwards, you can form an idea of the consequences of this practice being carried on month after month, especially in the summer. On Thursday night, about 10.30, when passing down Mailer street, someone was at this dirty work then, for when I got as far as Peterson street the stench was simply unbearable. I speak from a knowledge of the facts when I state that the residents of what I consider about the most thickly populated portion of the Borough (not a hundred miles away from the maia line tram terminus) arc among the principal sinners. To make matters worse, I am informed that the holes dug are only about a foot deep. As we have now two licensed nightmen in the Borough, and it only costs from Is to Is 6d at the most per month to have nightsoil removed, I think it an outrageous thing that people will endanger the health of all the inhabitants for the sake of this amount. I do not know if there is an; provision made in the Borough for stopping this dangerous practice ; but if there is, and the parties responsible do not see that it is carried out, I now inform them that I will certainly know the reason why. Hoping this hint will have the desired effect, and apologising for the length of this letter—l am, eta, Health. Mornington, January 15.