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their cause—contaminated milk. What has occurred
here has occurred everywhere else ; we need
protection for ourselves, and our milk-distributors
will welcome it, for they have no control, and no
possible means of a daily knowledge of the milk
supplied by them, and I have always found them
willing co-operators in all the regulations that have
been laid down to ensure purity of supply.
The Council have always moved with the
times, and have availed themselves of every means
of preventing mischief, but it is felt that this is of
little use if the districts from whence our main
supply comes are not at least as well looked after.
The County Council are taking action in
support, and it is for the consumers to insist
upon everything being done that science and
hygiene can suggest.
Sewage Farm.
Until other arrangements are possible this
method of treatment of the sewage of what was
formerly the Kingston Rural Sanitary District has
to be continued, and every care and consideration is
bestowed on it that present circumstances allow, but
from time to time, and most frequently during
summer weather, complaint is made of a nuisance
arising from the farm itself or more frequently from
the effluent. In August last complaint was made of
a special case of illness "caused by the foul smells
arising from the sewage farm," but I had no reason
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