TYPHOID FEVER.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 7777, 8 May 1886, Page 3

TYPHOID FEVER.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. Sir, —I have read your leading articles on this subject. Your opinion has been ably and emphatically endorsed by your contemporary. The question arises, What is to be done 1 The Public Health Act, 187 C, gives ample powers to the City Council to enforce sanitary laws—to make each citizen keep his own place clean. Let the Council study that Act. Invite medical reports as to the state of the city; scientific reports as to the cost of complete sewerage. Offer a L2O prize for the best essay on the subject within one month; present results to a convened public meeting of ratepayers, with motions as to ways and means ; and battle the enemy typhoid in the following manner :—By enforcing compliance with sections 41 to 52, 50 to C 7, and 80 to 83 of the Public Health Act actively, with extra inspectors tempororily—“ as witnesses in Court if necessary ;’’ compel citizens to suppress the nusiance by means of whitewashing, chloride of lime, disinfecting powder, and cremation. These appliances are economical, and will tend to deodorise the atmosphere, and crush the germs of disease, leaving harmless rubbish for the night carts. I use Calvert’s carbolic for my house, at a cost of about Is a month. Mine is a skeleton proposal ; let the proper officers of the Health Board fill in details for procedure. During the last ten days I- have visited various localities in this city, and am of opinion speedy and thorough reform is needed, with a view to cleanliness _in backyards, and flushing channels leading into thoroughfares. I would also suggest to the City Council the necessity of complying with section 44, Public Health Act, by erecting more urinals (to be continually flushed and deoderUed) in the busy centres ; for the makeshifts for purposes of nature by pedestrians at the present time are indecent and demoralising, creating most unhealthy nuisances, which aid the enemy typhoid.—l am, &c,, . „ „ Eton Boy.