The Globe. TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1875.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 185, 12 January 1875, Page 2

The Globe. TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1875.

. l&M ijp Btigmatised as blame v on the City wetventure to enter our pto-, test against the manner iii which the side chShhels of the city are cleansed. From time to time we hear of the « lif >h'atinemng,: |and' the "it seemer to be ; a great idea in the minds of our civic rulers, but we question whether, under the fyatejxi, it is not better -to be slowly poisoned by the open drains than quickly got rid of by means of the foetid heaps of filth which every morning are swept up in front of our doors and left to swelter, and infect the air under the scorching midsummer SM^KJJ^yriidhgaJtbiness; of Christchurch is matter for general remark, but with, such, plague heaps as these scattered up and down our streets* it is something like a miracle that an Epidemic has not, iere this, broken out ana decimated our population. It is '"also thdt the people who, day after day, experience the ill effects of the practice, and opposite whose houses, for the first few hours of the - >; lhdrning,'it is-almost impossible to pass, have not long ago risen up and demanded that the present poisoning pjf the air should be put a stop to at I once. It does not. require any argument on our pert to show the folly of w'W vxi’ -;l >u’J !

tj)> afi except to .s&prent dbuncilidrs who resolutely shut.their eyes to it/ , ;To sweep but all the stagnant deposit bf the side.'channels on fo j the side of the path there,.to ihfeet the air with* noxious exhaiat&% seemkio us to be the height o ( 4 fislyf' week'Mtet; week, and year after year, without any steps being taken to remedy the evil, Perhaps like the abolition of Smithfield, nothing will be done until an alderptah;;'pr e,vda perhaps a Mayor is sacrificed to the fever demon. Then .perhaps spmeth’ing will be done to ■^er^^rab 1 possibility bf the city bbing swept by an epidemic, Which at present may break out at any minute, fed and flourished as it is, in our very, midst, iby these abominable heaps. His Worship r the present Mayor, is we believe as strong an opponent as anyone can be to the disgraceful and fever-breed-ing method, to which we have alluded, and should he succeed in abolishing it, he will have done something which will entitle him to the thanks of the . citizens generally, and which will cause his mayoralty to be remembered when the more garish but less practical reign of his predecessor is forgotten. Let us hope that the citizens will awake from the lethargy into which they appear to have drifted ou this matter —one of the most vital importance to them —and demand of their representatives that, they shall no longer be exposed to the evils of a decimating epidemic through the stupidity —we can find no milder term —of the City Council, in planting a hotbed of disease at every few yards of the public streets of the city. Unless they do this, unwilling as we are to enact the role of Cassandra, we predict that fever will again rise up amongst us, and as before, sweep away our nearest and dearest as sacrifices to the fetish of municipal incompetency. It has done so; nearly every street has •had one or more houses in which it has claimed-its victim; yet still we continue the practice of poisoning the air wholesale, and thus scattering the seeds of disease and death broadcast. We have written strongly on this subbecause it is one which afßgsfs us all so nearly, and if only a partial amelioration be the result—for it is too much to expect the City Council to do all at once—then we shall not have raised the voice of warning in vain. ,