To the Editor of the "Norra-Cuina Dairy News."
Sin,—I had occasion to walk by the Tatung Road yesterday, and was disagreeably surprised to find that a horribly filthy creek is per-"mitted to meander through this fair part of the western district. I followed the direction of this creek for some distance, and found it to be nothing more or less than an open sewer, into which all manner of filth and rubbish is cast. Tt seethed and steamed with rottenness, and the stench was overpowering. It is the breeding ground of myriads of flies and mosquitoes, as the former feed on the refuse which lies in clumps on the sides, while the mosquito finds plenty of room to thrive in the shallow pools that have formed on either bank.
Where is the use of all- this advice by the Commissioner of Public Health on how to fight the mosquito and fly scourge, and what an unfair handicap to the laudable private efforts made for their suppression, when breeding spots in the shape of open-sewers and semi-stagnant pools abound in the Settlement, such as the creek referred to above, the horribly filthy Hongkew Creek that is a curse to Dixwell Road Extension dwellers, the creek by the Love Lane that seems to be somebody's unclean pet, and the miniature moat surrounding the Race Course?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.