THE SOUTHERN RESERVOIR.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I wish to enter a protest against the public being permitted to picnic or enter the precincts of the water reserves for any purpose whatever, even for fishing, especially when such people cannot attend to the common decencies of every-day life. The following incident happened last Saturday (April 2): —The suspicious movements of some woman disappearing over the small incline led later to the discovery that she_ had cast a disgusting mess of offensive matter not two yards from the intake of this reservoir. No imagination is needed to see what happens when a shower of rain follows and this is, washed into the reservoir, or, failing rain, this mess dries in the hot sunshine and the wind blows this in. Perhaps this woman has some incurable disease. Who knows? If people must enter these grounds lavatories should be erected for their use. I would like to add that on more than one occasion I have remonstrated with
children for doing the same thing, as well as Avading.—l am, etc., Sanitation'. April 9.
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Evening Star, Issue 21073, 9 April 1932, Page 23
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