THE HEALTH OF CHILDREN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14144, 20 August 1909, Page 9

THE HEALTH OF CHILDREN.

Sir,—l road with much pleasure your able loader 011 the health of the children of New Zealand in the Hekald on Wednesday last, and I quite agree with you that this ques- ; tion is an important factor in the future existence of Auckland children and the Dominion as a whole. •• "Has it, never struck you that the new •Auckland drainage scheme, which proposes . Jo dump the sewerage of Auckland into the ,harbour (near Bean Rock, off the Bastion at prakei), without in any way trying to purify it, is a most serious menace to the health *>f the children of the future and the community at large? Already the eases of wood-poisoning of boys ana girls in Auckland have increased 50 per cent, during the •last four or five years, which aro traced by too doctors in most instances to cuts from shell or broken glass while bathing or wading ott tho foreshore of Auckland Harbour. Those tuts would not result in blood-poisoning if it was not for tho already filthy state of many ■Parts of our foreshoro, due to running the pOweragc into the harbour. Let all parent*? ™o m a body in Auckland and stop this «*neme being carried out; if this is done 5* /''all 1*» following tho example of "fisbane, Sydney, and many other large towns, who have taken and are taking f. e P to remove the drainage , from i_® harbour, and at enormous expense carry it out to the open ocean. tan s "?** letters in your issue of August 2 i: X tended Auckland Harbour Pollu--0 n» and endorse every word. H. B. Mokkow. ' <i, ' : °..f