WELLINGTON STREET.

Timaru Herald, Volume LX, Issue 2647, 9 March 1898, Page 3

WELLINGTON STREET.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIJIARO HKRALD. Sir, — Had Mr Macintosh acted upon his assertion to " Guardian of Health " — " His rash and untruthful statements do much damage," etc., he would not have given his wild statement m the Council as reported m the papers (which report he has not m any way questioned, and I must therefore accept as fairly correct), and I should not have had to pen my first letter. People reading "there were many cases of typhoid fever" m a small street of fourteen houses would quite expect to see a cordon and black flag stationed at the i entrance. I may here dispose of Mr Baird's letter by saying that if he is so insane as to metaphorically foul his own nest the other property-owners are not so disposed. Mr M. saya :—" Mr Turner must be very ignorant if he is not aware that there is a per-j son now slowly recovering," etc. Most decidedly he is. I will now state the cases of typhoid fever I have ascertained as near as possible to have occurred m the street. Case 1. Eighteen years ago. A married nArnaii, milk fever, Hlipposed to have turned to typhoid ; attended by Dr Lovegrove, Case 2. Ten years ago. A young girl sickened, believed to be from eating unripe fruit, possibly colic or English cholera ; attended by Dr Mclntyre. Case 3. A few months ago. A young man, undoubtedly typhoid, went to Milford with his employer, and while heated drank water from stagnant pool. Treated at hospital, doctor certified to cause. Case 4. A few months ago. A young girl, doctor suspected typhoid, temperature suddenly went down, m bed a few days, then went two or three days to school. Sickness lasted three weeks. I will here remark on this case that there is no law to prevent a person calling a sickness by any name he pleases, or making it answer any purpose it suits him. Mr M. fancies he has scored a point about my signing a requisition, but he has so jumbled up the past and present that his meaning is hardly intelligible. I did sign such a document m the past. At the present I assert, witn others, that the drains are satisfactory, and that the street has never been m a better state since the Pareora water was brought into it. That requisition I should never I have signed if I had had a suspicion that it was going to be used as an engine of persecution of the lady whose name is mentioned m it (this remark does not refer to Mr M. or the Council). i I am, etc., H. J. Turner. I March Bth, 1898.