NAPIER SANITATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2763, 18 March 1910, Page 5

NAPIER SANITATION.

A DOCTOR'S INDICTMENT

[Special to “Times. 1 _ NAPIER, March lv. Matters of sanitation are now looming up like a spectre before the public**of Napier. The following letter, written by Dr. H. F. Bernan in today’s “Daily Telegraph” gives a clear idea of the position :—“Sir we all owe you a debt of gratitude for bringing before the public notice the present dis_ graceful condition of the sewer outfall. As you say, we were told by the Napier South Syndicate some years ago that the present condition of things was inevitable. As time went on, the Council have waited, I conclude, to see if this opinion was correct, with disastrous results. It is probably not generally known that at high tide there is no discharge of sewerage at all at the outlet, as this is sealed. I think this is a matter of such urgency that the Council should obtain the opinion of some competent sanitary engineer as to whether something can be done to temporarily improve matters until the loan money is available to carry out Mr Taylor’s scheme. I am sure my experience is only that of many other dwellers on the fiats when I say it is. impossible to keep one’s windows open at night owing to the stench that pervades the town. We have at the present time typhoid in our midst of a more malignant type than I have seen during my seventeen years’ practice here, and the mortality lias been very high. Napier has, up to the .present, had a reputation as a health resort. Is it not a. pity to spoil this reputation for the want of a little energy and commonsense ?’ ’