THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

Grey River Argus, Volume XVI, Issue 2197, 24 August 1875, Page 2

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

[to the editor.] . Sjr— Some four months since public .' notification was given through your columns by the Local Board of Health (the Borough Council) that on and after June Ist all persons not' complying with that portion- of the -Public Hfealth Act which requires every householder •to supply ; his estabiishinent with ,in'e|irih' clpset^ter a" certain date would Ji^ f jiarjie I Lto r the,' penalty therein named viz., ,Lso;]_ " . Delighted to find .that at last there could be a Board of Health that meant work, I, in common with many others, jat once took the necessary steps to provide ,^hat wejWere told: jwas necessary. . '... | *>" When this was 1 "done 1 patiently aw&ited for the Lo^al- Board- .to,, fialfil their poftlott r of the wort a's Taid .down by the same same. £e<jticm-q;(2Q). of f th,e (same Act, vk^fj "to make adequate provision for sup- I plying the occupiers of houses with earth I : fotonfle/in«aiibhsol6s6ts};and r removing the"? same from such earth closets," but apparedtly "'thes'> gentlemen "Comp'osirig^ the B r oard. exhausted themselves .by in-,, sertlttg 'lthe' ::f iibtice ' f above referred to, | for they have taken, no further, action '■ sih'cW. ; My object in writing is : simpiy' to point pnt,; f l|hat rin. tho^e f instances . where 1 the '" notice ' has_ been obeyed and earth . closets established, } unless • some , . sanitary precautiqpS; ( lare enforcedi '■ they will ibe 1 found to be a greater danger to the. public i health -than'even those' hotbeds of disease misnamed water closets, Btill so largely infesting the town. Disease and death, from -pre ventible causes,' have been safe amongst us during the cold weather — w.hat piay ensue rwhen the humid heat of summer -comes to ripen the germs ' of diseased now latent, and to propagate

ijthese in full vigor, maybe surmised, but^ .'can scarcely be depicted.; H' U('..V\ I "Those who may tiaye neglected, to' guard that which has been eritrusted'xtothem, viz., the health of the 1 town* will then have much to answer for. ' Many deaths have taken place from diptheria, measles, and other infectious diseases -during the las*"- - few months. ,1 trust, therefore, .it will not be consi•deredf premature if I ask- whether tho /Local Board have seen that the 1 6th, lYtfi,r and" 18th "sections df the Public Health Act'iare f dulyvcpmplied with. % might not Be ariiiss to quote thosexlausesi ■Sir; -''tbr^a '^^BtitbK <iri -tinie often favei nine." >.- } ,-.£I:TAT4 Ws^M;W&™ — _. Paterfamilias. ! ,;,, Augjast23. . u^,.a 1