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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 371, 14 April 1876, Page 3

\_The following appeared in ow issue of Saturday last: —] Sbvebal applications were heard fa the Warden's Court, Naseby, yesterday afternoon. Messrs. Guffie and Inder withdrew their application at Clarke's at the last moment, which was pointedly alluded to by Mr. Hertslet, as feeing very annoying to objectors, who had come a long distance. Brooke's and others applied for a tail race in the Main Gully, which waß met by three objections. The application was adjourned, sine die, in order to enable the Warden, to consider the matter, and obtain professional advice. The objection of Jacob and party was the only one lodged apparently of any real weights After an inspection of the proposed line of race it appeared that even it was an objection to be got over by arrangement. Mr. Bailey, on behalf of Brookes and party, made liberal offers of free user to the mining public, conditional only upon joint responsibility for damages. The Central Board of Health on Monday last agreed to appoint a Local Eoard for St. Bathans. The Board's operations will be confined to the township. I'he members of the Bosrd will probably be Messrs. Samuel Hanger, George Purton, and George Presoott. The powers conferred under the Act are ample to enable all needful sanitary measures to be enforced. In incorporated townships the body, unless specially superseded, is the Local Board. We may add that it should not be forgotten, in preventative measures, that dry filth is more dangerous to health than even wet seething sewerage. The germs of disease are not destroyed merely because dry from a fair surface drainage. Filth should therefore when removed, be buried or conveyed fco a safe distance, and in no case should it be allowed to lie in heaps at the side of drains, to dry, and be re-distributed in the 6hapa of dry dust, the very matrix of ell disease.