SANITARY PRECA PE

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1190, 1 November 1882, Page 2

SANITARY PRECA PE

+ [To THE EDITOR IXA3 flA.' <'.". ■ T f >rf.,: 1 Sik. —The towa of Re<jf;<>;) "' -. .;'!1 its natural advantages and huiUktu! surroundings, ia fast becoming a 3'ii l.-:^ \y for fever and disoane. Its natural Jra: :t;.- is obstructed by tilth of the vilest fl.-ciip tion. In the very centre of the town y.u will find pools of stagnant water, wiiicii have been allowed to remain there for iiit. last nine years, as a ready receptacle fur every desjription of foul and pestilencebreeding matter. You will find back. yards in the moat filthy condition, and cesspools overflowing from filthy accumulations of yuars, until the suvroun ling atmosphere has become so impregnated with the poisonous gasos arising therefrom that it becomes a wonder how we have escaped so long the dire consequences of our own criminal negligence." We are every moment subject to fall victims to a malignant fever, and in tho event of such a diis cala.aity, the innocent would be the must to suffer, and the readiest victims to ita fatal effects ; for we always find child run more sucsptible to tho influence of unwholesome surrounding*, and consequently they would be the innocent victims of our criminal disregard of sanitary precautions. Then why such apathy ? Why not adopt the antidote which is entirely at our own disposal, to prevent all chances of such a dread calamity. It is said that Cleanliness ia nest to Godliness, but I have often heard the name of God blasphemed, by attributing to Him the authorship of evils and afflictions for which we ourselves by our utter disrogard of the laws of nature, and sanitary precautions, are solely and directly responsible; moreover, by offering up prayers to Him to remove our afflictions and remedy the causes thereof by doing the work which is solely and absolutly under our own control, and which for the non-fulfilment thereof we alone are responsible. The elements of danger and forewarning are visibly plain to all, and I sincerely hope the proper authorities will take the matter in hand ere it be too late, and make it compulsory for all who are personally responsible to fulfill their duties, aud remove all obnoxious matter from their various holdings, and also prosecute their own public duties in the same direction, for the benefit and protection of the whole community. I am etc., Observer.