HEALTH WEEK

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11664, 31 October 1923, Page 7

HEALTH WEEK

OPPOSITION FROM HUTT VAIiLEY. “DISGRACE TO COMMODITY . M Both tho boroughs of Petone and Ixrwer Hutt have been doubtful as to the advisability or necessity of carrying out a health week programme in their districts. At a recent meeting of the Petone Council this body’s inspector remarked that a health weelc was an unnecessary thing in the borough. It was a disgrace to a community, said the inspector, that such a thing as a health week should have to be conducted once a year in a borough. The cleanliness of the district should be maintained throughout the whole of the year. The inauguration of a health week would tend to make the people believe that rubbish would be allowed to accumulate until the health week, when the borough would stand the cost of the cartage of rubbish of all kinds. Tho Lower Hutt borough inspector declared qlong similar lines at this councdl’a last meeting. It would appear that the suburbs lying in the Hutt I'allev were decidedly averse to the innual “clean-up,” which Wellington fcas adopted with such vigour. This may quite reasonably be exVlaincd by tho fact that tho boroughs if Petone and Lower Hutt are not to my large extent manufacturing centre's, and they are in a valley where 3io collection of rubbish or filth is not is likely as in a thickly populated trea. The determination on the part >f the two boroughs to look into the natter of a health week before declaring the necessity of holding tvn© is wrhaps a commendable action, for if tho boroughs can be kept in a per>etual state of cleanliness, as has been cmarked, this would be hotter than in annual “clean-up,” whilst in tho nterim the properties wore allowed + o icoumulate. enough filth to keep tho ileaners busily employed during the mo week in the year get apart for the purpose.