DIRT AND DISEASE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXV, Issue 287, 18 December 1889, Page 4

DIRT AND DISEASE.

•■ ■ _ . (Attienß m Melbourne Leader) i Paoipra wonder at the prevalence of diet ■ "diseases m spfte of all the efforts that are made to keep the community clean. A ■ \{. case that was triad at the Carlton Police Court this week gives one an idea of the manner m which dirt diseases may spread, even if we bad a hurldred central boards of health each of a hundred Health Aot : power. A wretohed rusiio paid a visit to Melbourne during the race time. and as •! • usual went ■on the spree. He. drew £5 out of the eavingß back, went into a email 100 m, " and pulling off his boot ' ' concealed four of the notes m the foot of hiß sock." When m the course of nature he got drunk, the thieves first tried his pockets for the money, and finding none there ■." pulled off his boots qnd searched, Ms socks." The mere fact of their doing this ebowe h</w nsnal the praotice ia of osing the cook as & hiding place. liaye been told by opnntiy bank managers that - it is a, coromon thin? for a minor or farm, labourer to Blip off his boot atiheconnter . afterawaik ; of Bpr lb.milespn abotday arid hand m the carefnlly hoarded savings ' dfa month, "hot and I thought it; exaggeration, but' the Carlion case showgcibat frequently it, is done, .Faush! The idea is < too disgusting. The stolen - notes of that drunken be or may be m your pocket, my dt&r roadam/ci raine and .when one of us siokensand dies of typhoid to- morrow or next week, the poor • innocent drains' will be blamed for it. The Roman wou'd not have written that money had no .smell if they had had bank notes m bia day J . . r