A NUISANCE.

Evening Star, Issue 8611, 3 September 1891, Page 4

A NUISANCE.

TO THE EDITOR, Sir,— Could science devise a surer method of spreading an epidemic in the City and suburbs than to take the nightsoil of the Flat to the rise near Lookout Point, and convert it into artificial manure ? Let our medical experts reply. The stuff is made up of the slops and excreta of patients in all that unhealthy locality and put through a process that drives all the typhoid and other disease germs it contains floating in the air we breathe and contaminating the water we drink—the reservoir being an open receptacle for them, as well as the tanks of those who depend on rain-water for their supply. Has this place been proclaimed a depot, as the law requires ? If not, why is it allowed ? I notice that there was a promise given to the Gaversham Borough Council lately that the nuisance would be abated in fntnre. X must say that this seemed to be fuelled tof

a few days last week, but .since Friday last It seems to be carried on with renewed vigor rather than abated, judging by the offensive smell issuing therefrom. I trust that not only Caveraham but the City and other borough authorities will see to the nuisance being not partially but entirely abated before it Is too late.—l am, eto., Clear Water. Mornington, September 1.