Public Health.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVI, Issue 5013, 20 September 1906, Page 3

Public Health.

Dr. de Lisle’s Report. In his annual report to the Chief Health Officer, Dr. de Lisle makes nfareoce to local matters. The report fries "Kaikora North.—This place still onjoyi tbe enviable position of being a healthy and prosperous little township, requiriug no attention from the Health Department. " Waipawa.—The present Town Board mm alive to the necessities of sanitation. Several connections with the atsr have been made during the past year, and schemes are being disoussed lor i public water supply which will bo gkely to eventuate. With further sewer loanections, and the general introduction of water closets, which must result then water becomes ao accomplished bet, the outfall on the river bauk will have to bo attended to. It will bo desnble, 1 should say imperative, to pass tbe sewage through a sooptio tank bebrt permitting it to enter the river. I itgrot to say that in Waipawa there are ewal dwellings erected on insufficient sertilage. This blot cannot be remedied briome years to come, till the houses bay and are demolished, but care must b taken that the error is not perpetulied in future.

"Wsipukurau.—This pretty township is mowing ahead. Some new buildings ksve been erected during the past year. Iks Road Board have given placo to the Town Board, the members of which mcd to be alive to their recponsibilities, ud to be desirous to improve the sauiury condition of this much favoured Tillage. Many nuisances have been abeted, end it seems that it will only be i mtter of a little time when money till be raised to improve the defective •endition of the sewers.

“Ortnondville, Makotuku and Norsetooc".—Those are scattered and open townships, standing at an elevation of •boot 1000 feet above sea level. There 100 overcrowding and very little siokMu,and not much that claims attention. Tbs hotel at Ortnondville, which was a tangling, ramshackle structure, has kn almost entirely rebuilt and pro•M with up to-date appliances. It is >•* one of the most comfortable and up-country hotels in tbe fctrict.