PUBLIC HEALTH.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 66, 28 February 1911, Page 11

PUBLIC HEALTH.

(To Editor.) . Sir,—WKm -a nan who has spent his brat days in the selection, handling, and distribution of paper collan. fustian trousers, and pearl buttons stakes periodic excursions into the region of matters he does not understand, and is by instinct and training incapable of appcecisting, it is small wonder that be ■naked a holy eodißntioa of himself. His medical friends—to whom, in

his wisdom, facetiousness, and arrogance he is so exceedingly kind, ntaist naturally eondnde that Hr. John Bieh has already readied the

stage oF**aai3b peari-battoaitia/’ or death attop. Bat if at present hie interminable literary jeremiades are'positively appalling* what will they be when he reaches the age of loot

His history of the calm jog-along old Jenkins is undoubtedly moot interesting, but everyone knows that the real cause which hurried on the end of this worthy was a broken heart caused by the unexpected news of his second son’s death at the age of 135. Old Jenkins’ last words were, “I always feared I never would rear that child.”

No doubt the problems to be faced and solved during the next few years are momentous; still, 1 would ask the residents of Havelock and Pukahn to be of good cheer. In the dark and gloomy clouds there is a silver lining. Toung Mr. Rich is looming up; he is on the point of projection, and salvation is at hand. He will feed the people cm his father’s rich and ripe experience, and on sun-baked rabbit and Tauranga shark, .and all will be well. The ancient and orthodox Doper, with all his paraphernalia of scissors, pincers, catgut, antiseptic gauze, and ether cones win be bundled into the realm of the dustbin, and then shall dawn that glorious day “of the very even life, no great excitement, but a calm and jog-along existence,” -and Methuselah will not be in the running. I think your columns could very well have been spared the idiotic junketings of the esoteric anthropologist, but the name and address of the London josser who treated and cured 150 cases of appendicitis ' by his hygienic method would have been of decided interest to humanity at large. I should like to have seen a brief and authentic account of the cases, to convince me that they really had their origin in the appendix, and that they were not simple cases of colly-wobbles.—l am, etc., “ CODLIN.”