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property has lived there for over 30 yeqrs and states that no cesspit ever existed on his property.
MY Richardson also sta,es that
clay was used to fill in the ground but no clay beyond whth was on
ginally on the land is to be seen. The foot-path of MILVA are to
some extent forned of the sane material (rotton granite) ladit no corn
plaints have ever been lade,
In conversation Mr. Richardson practically admitted tat his mo
tives were to improve the value of his own land,
About three years ago two cases of typhoid fever occurred in
the faiAly of the a--;ter but these cases may have been caused by
several poor patients suffering from the same disease being treated
in a cottage elose to the sahool.
The patients were brought 24
wiles by order of the doctor to be treated in the town.
The two cases of scarlet fever whic# occurred in the.aster's
family were also imported from BOMBALA by the sons of he teacher
who during the holidays had taken then, there.
Measles and scarlet fever has appeared fro-, ti-e to time in
MILTON and about 4 years ago thDre was a berious outbreak of piphtheria but nothing could colinect the outbreak with the Pulaic Sabool
bejong the ordinary circumstances of children attending snhoel
before
the disease itself ma marked degree.
The me-bers of the School Board all gentlemen of some standing
in the district -adt, a careful inspection of the school premises sim
some little time ago and expressed their entire satisfactionwith the
sanitary condition.
The Council Clerk also stated that he could ilot understand mtV
com laints should be raised as he had known the prerises lance
childhood,
I was also referred to a storekee er named Pickering as a
gentleman who had often co iained ahout the condition of the
school but he denied that he had any cause for couplaint.
In tact
he was absolutely sure that no grounds for complaint existed.
Paul E. Getting, A.I.S.E,
Sanitary Inspector.