NATIONAL SANITARY ORGANISATION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 10483, 22 October 1894, Page 3

NATIONAL SANITARY ORGANISATION.

TO THE EDITOR, Sib,—Men and women die of hunger under any form of government. America has no State church, or hereditary peerage, but many unemployed. For the root of the bitterness consider the ill-administered laws of health. A democracy must have a high national “ideal” and organisation; a sanitary organisation is the highest possible, i. is worse than wicked, it is rude, to live comfortably oblivion® of your neighbour’s needs; financially, it is foolish. Common sense and justice demand that no person who is poor should ba neglected. A poor peroon is liable, by reason of hia poverty, to disease. A diseased person is a menace to the health of the community, and a loss, financially, to the State. A _ central sanitary council must have existence in New Zealand; the financial necessities of the country will force this matter on. Germany will not taka our moats unless we take proper sanitary precautions. Visitors will not travel to New Zealand if doctors are not in the intercolonial steamers. Every province requites a medical officer of health. Every State school district requires an inspecting medical officer, oculist and dentist. Future politics, independent of party matters, will do much more to relieve human misery until the words “ State aid ” shall mean all that is good for our bodies and interests—sanitation. I will once more beg the clergy of all denominations to put themselves in communication with the National Health English Organisation, 53, Berner’s Street, Oxford Street, London. A report of the work in sent free to any applicants. Dirt and disease are enemies to healthy thought and good action. Surely the ministers of all denominations will help to instruct their parishioners how to relievo human misery and lessen human suffering. Let each parish provide printed matter for distribution relating to the laws of health. —I am. &c., • W. E. HA.CON. BUSINESS BEFORE PLEASURE. TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —Many of your readers will bo interested to learn that before they go to the races this year they had better pay their rates, as by “ The Eating Act, 1894,” now in force, and by which previous Rating Acts are repealed, it is provided that 10 per cent shall ba added to rates six months overdue.—l am, &c., RATEPAYER.