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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 968, 5 December 1879, Page 2

The members of the medical faculty m Dunedin have pronounced the box c'»Befc syßtem, as insisted on by some of the smaller municipalities, as the filthiest) the dirtiest,; the most nnisaome and the most fever-breeding system that the nastiest imagination and the grossest ignorance could,, have devised. Referring t > the subject, the Evening Star quotes from the Lancet, which asserts there is only one safe system, and that system is immediate removal of nil deposits ; and that system is practically an impossibility. The next is immediate deoderisation, which is quite possible, but is costly. The third and most practical system is, that which has been adopted for the last eight hundred years m most countries where there are no rapid rivers or spas for excrement to be discharged into, which is the cess-pit system, the cess-pits lined with stout timbers or brick work. We can say this much on the subject, which is that since the Gisborne Borough Council has insisted upon the filthy, disgusting box-system being employed the stench of some portions of the town is abominable ; and on occasions, at night people are awakened from their sleep by the disgusting effluvium caused by the nightmen removing the boxes to throw the contents into a cart. The subject is not a pleasant one to dwell on ; but the Borough Council ought not to have attempted to legislate upon matters they are thoroughly Ignorant of. The horrid stenches now existing and I the filthy deposits which are permitted to remain m porous and leaky wooden boxes will not t»ke long ere a good fever crop is raised.