HEALTH REFORM.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18419, 22 March 1928, Page 5

HEALTH REFORM.

To the Editor. Sir.—ln this evening’s issue of your worthy paper one reads of the prevalence of various diseases in our city, and can you wonder at it? I would offer a suggestion to the powers that be that they follow the example of our North Island citjes. or to come nearer home, take Waimairi, with their three miles of concrete roads. Now, sir. I ask you would it not be much better if Christchurch could settie down to something more substantial than this everlasting and wasteful top-dressing of our main streets? Take Cashel Street for instance, which has just been recently regraded at considerable expense to the ratepayers. Already one sees the first signs of pot-holes. What will it be like when the winter is over? Further on we have again Buckley's Road, which T dare say carries as much traffic as any street in the city. It has also been renewed—what with? The usual thin coat of tar, only on one side, too. which I might say i£ gradually disappearing in clouds of dust. likewise germs, the same being detrimental to the health of the residents in the vicinity, and naturally bringing to a!1 and sundry those dread diseases which help to fill our-hospitals.—l am. etc., THE DUST DISPELLER