SANITARY MATTERS IN GISBORNE.
UNDESIRABLE CONDITIONS
Some of the business premises an this town are occasioning the occupiers considerable annoyance and inconvenience by reason of tlieir insanitary condition. A “Times” reporter set out to investigate one of which complaint had been made, and found a disgraceful state of affairs. Enteriu a yard, common to half a dozen or more premises, through the back door, a stench immediately assails the nostrils of the daring one. A drain opens at the door, and another drain is alongside a dining-room window. As may he expected, the flies are there in swarms, and nobody in particular seems to accept the responsibility for the lack of sanitary precautions. Round the yard are scattered boxes and tins with, all sorts of mal-odorous contents, and after rain and the consequent development of microbes, the position cannot fail to he a serious menace to health. Point is given to the statement when it is said that from that vicinity a typhoid fever patient was taken.' There is a concrete rubbish box, which is foul in the extreme, filled with all sorts of decaying matter.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2118, 18 February 1908, Page 1
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186SANITARY MATTERS IN GISBORNE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2118, 18 February 1908, Page 1
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