The Lyttelton Times. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1874.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XLII, Issue 4327, 24 December 1874, Page 2

The Lyttelton Times. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1874.

It that the City: Council - should ail. them, energies to subject&-T-df;aiQage, -sewage, and lighting. < Thby ekern 'to : have' lost sighf of, or ; : perhaps they huve not realiskd, | the fact that Ghrihtohurch 1 is growing and that, very ' large additions have - .been made to population during eighteen months:These additiona, it is generally; .bayfe', iidt imWved ■the sdhitaiy condition of the city, (and this- -reproach sbouid be looked upoii as a ra&W than a fault,. There .liMi s beßn; (to begin .scarcity of house acconuhodation.” That.i remark is made every! day, and we J are copyinced ftdm bbservatioh tliat ; It is '^^-founded, f-M 'pot sufficient liouse acfebmmddhtion in, -Clmsl^burph. l ! for jwe are entitle)d-td-say r thp|, leads to what) the ‘ coßocildrs df •VYheli we find that 1 or three famiilieh ; -are hvingf 'in a space that ia barely shfißcifept for ope of a mdderate ntlxaber, we cannot be surprised on reading the o^ial'' pfidie death-rato in; and iatound Ohristohurch; ' ; 1 ' , j ,r,..lt,nhaß j been said, and not ..without -reason, • that-most • of - the -deaths- occur outside whptr». £ ip ( ;:called Christchurch. The Eegmtrar’s statistics are brought up in ..support of, this assertion, and [they show that “ comparatively healthy. * only proves force of, our remits, for we have pointed out on several o'ccaeiona that all thS 7 efforts 1 of the City Oo|mcil' had been'expended 1 within a certain ;raditiß, than for the benefit pf the city. It is,a fact that fewer deaths occur in, say the. Triangle, than in Latimer or Crhiiiiiyr adtairbs.' We ! are Speaking, of ,co\p;B^^Brpapy, apd*oT^ei^bqurhqods; but we think -the statistics will stow f great "'d^i-of Attention to tW centre; of (their r tfaihe :i ihiitake which is charged against the provinces—they have neg-

looted the Their idea seems to bH that OhnMnttM s bounded B thß rest by thßtvoA n Kit HIM *ji 16 Renßl rßwayH tatihs 1H nfli|H| mjom >f and it will be found that “ the balance of deaths ” is against these quarters. The centre of Christchurch—say from •thrrosnj^^ SfltMmgsa will that the.c ty. way'mi ch !d----fThey scam; to ut the Bank - ot> tiNewi -cs , ‘that ill sewage - will' ; nofth c^; south-east! 'Ofiuthe' -todtiMtshed. As a rfflplten in Jana 1 uilying.: westward t.efrlhe jnsiL or, ISf6Hto , eal stredfcKjiii the aft and thence i theo /di’ainage g< es B,ithei;, r €jaß,|w(iSjl‘ pr,, i h» Avon, ; -'~&6">f)lCr'->aa ! i |th4"Armagh 'lslr<iet ; ulliCi SJUdll'O XIB to JRlfjO.lD . wCst ‘ quarter is cpr^epfe^,;:tf> - But tlu re ( is .ai ivery thickly populal ed north-west, v* 80 rea< [ yThose who are- near a stream like Ihe a MMards i ifcP ia ' i do a hy r thP , ''Cit^ ! €hu!hcil f us f-thatv.Ahe: temptation - to-those i who’hi ye, is oieth^t |e resist ••We Ppine,"thenj 'to the-fold ’ stoiy ab( ut 1 ! ;the rt (pplihtion’of ~iiyerp,;: we rionplusiop thaf the Avpn, in/ its- courae thiNiugL' Chiistchui’chJ is 'to. ah ' extent ,whifch is idt ■eqhallPd even in the Old Country. Take 1 the the boat-■ is it bHt Sose whb take Itdwßco*trouble to walk' r M£g° its^^j-w^i^ Ue’ have speemed, will.<speedu;ft prove that, statement OTwae uiith. The livertPjffrds the we,'regret, to pfilpwih? tion is an institutifel sa. useful and'benefieial to'the public. 21.7 .Drier .r/rireoK aa-raA milfl—L ah iAi'Jiiiiw^cLr;!* — 1 11