FIT OR UNFIT.
TO THE KDITOR. Sir,—l see that the committee and doctors appointed to examine and report upon the state of certain tenements situated in Lower Walker street have done good work so far in condemning and causing to he removed the above-mentioned miserable dens ; But, sir, it appears to be a one-sided affair after all, and anything but a finished work, because the buildings left standing are in many points worse than those pulled down. They are not only unfit for habitation, but a source of danger'to the passer-by. Again, the street has two sides to it, and why have the committee and doctors confined their investigations to one side. This looks like making fish of one and flesh of another. There are dens on the opposite side equally bad, and quite as unfit for human habitation as any of those that have been pulled down on the Devil's Half-acre. This is not all. There are several closets with large cesspools, containing tons of putrid_ soil, the stench from which at times is Bimply abominable. The Devil reigus over more than one half-acre in Walker street.—l am, etc., Not a Painter's Toady. Dunedin, March 20.
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Evening Star, Issue 7480, 26 March 1888, Page 4
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197FIT OR UNFIT. Evening Star, Issue 7480, 26 March 1888, Page 4
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