SANITARY MATTERS.

Evening Star, Volume 12869, Issue 12869, 19 July 1906, Page 5

SANITARY MATTERS.

TO THE EDITOn. Sir,- It ir, to be regretted that it, should be necessary for tho. Press to take .notice of tho want of sanitary conveniences in this City. The matter has been from time to time brought forward in letters from anonymous correspondents, but so far with out any result, and your powerful leading article of last week seems to have boon road to deaf ears. Puro water and good drainage _ arc tho first essentials for a modern city ; but are we not very much liehind in thero matters? The drinking water is anything but what it ought to be, and our drainage system will jwrhaps bo completed some day when the outfall h:i.s been decided on. There must be few towns the size of Dimedin where the public conveniences are so few and far between as in this town. Why are they not pla.eed contiguous to the theatres and other r4ae.es of amusement, with some distinguishing mark to denote their position to strangers? In large cities such as London and "Glasgow the public are well provided with them in conspicuous places, and I fa-Sl to see whv on.r City Fathers should not bestir themselves. I trust that these frequent comments on the subject may be the means of a strenuous effort being made to remedy the crving evil of a natural want.—l am, etc., ~ , Samtas. Julv 19.