BLANEY TO THE RESCUE, Me. Thomas Blaney of
Bombay
medium of the pages of the Times
addressed, through the a long and earnest India, of
lias
appeal, warning or lecture?we are at a to
loss for the correct term?
the householders and citizens of Calcutta,
their civic rulers
are
informing tliem that descendants,
about to rob them and their
poisoning them by evil vapours which are underground drains. There is much show of what may be called by courtesy reasoning in this letter, but not one fact from the beginning of the letter to the end of it, tending to prove that the drains are not needed, or that they will, when constructed, increase sickness and mortality. Mr. Blaney knows that the only facts available point in the opposite direction. Since Calcutta has been drained, the health of the town has most decidedly improved. This is one of those "chielswha winna ding, an daur na be disputetand until some fact on the other side is brought forward, it is entitled to great weight. But the drains are wanted whether the excreta are to be removed by them or by animal agency. The rural instincts of an oriental population find no field?in more senses than one?in Calcutta, and deportation of excreta is a necessity. If water deportation in under-ground drains is found to be such a failure as our sanitary prophets predict, then, without prejudice to the use or need of the drains, some other system of deportation may be employed. Mr. Blaney is not aware, evidently, that the extension of drainage was made a subject of special injuiry by a committee of eminent engineers before the Justices resolved, on the committee's recommendation, to sanction the extension. The inquiry he suggests has thus been anticipated. He is evidently unacquainted with the details of the Calcutta drainage works when he writes of storm water being pumped up ! He should at least study his subject
for the purpose of to be generated in
before he becomes
a
volunteer mentor.
Loss of life caused by wild beasts in India.?From most interesting paper published in a supplement to the Gazette of India, dated 16th September, we learn that during the three years 1866-69. the reported deaths from wild beasts were 12,554, and from snakes 25,606; total 38,218, or 12,736 per annum. Government authorizes the giving of rewards tor the of destructive beasts in the killing neighbourhood of human habitations, and withdraws the prohibition issued against granting rewards for killing snakes. Such rewards are not to exceed two annas a head, and certain conditions are imposed on their bestowal. We doubt if much can be made on impression this serious nuisance by the fitful killing of a comparatively few individuals in the neighbourhood of habitations. a
Bombay
medium of the pages of the Times
addressed, through the a long and earnest India, of
lias
appeal, warning or lecture?we are at a to
loss for the correct term?
the householders and citizens of Calcutta,
their civic rulers
are
informing tliem that descendants,
about to rob them and their
poisoning them by evil vapours which are underground drains. There is much show of what may be called by courtesy reasoning in this letter, but not one fact from the beginning of the letter to the end of it, tending to prove that the drains are not needed, or that they will, when constructed, increase sickness and mortality. Mr. Blaney knows that the only facts available point in the opposite direction. Since Calcutta has been drained, the health of the town has most decidedly improved. This is one of those "chielswha winna ding, an daur na be disputetand until some fact on the other side is brought forward, it is entitled to great weight. But the drains are wanted whether the excreta are to be removed by them or by animal agency. The rural instincts of an oriental population find no field?in more senses than one?in Calcutta, and deportation of excreta is a necessity. If water deportation in under-ground drains is found to be such a failure as our sanitary prophets predict, then, without prejudice to the use or need of the drains, some other system of deportation may be employed. Mr. Blaney is not aware, evidently, that the extension of drainage was made a subject of special injuiry by a committee of eminent engineers before the Justices resolved, on the committee's recommendation, to sanction the extension. The inquiry he suggests has thus been anticipated. He is evidently unacquainted with the details of the Calcutta drainage works when he writes of storm water being pumped up ! He should at least study his subject
for the purpose of to be generated in
before he becomes
a
volunteer mentor.
Loss of life caused by wild beasts in India.?From most interesting paper published in a supplement to the Gazette of India, dated 16th September, we learn that during the three years 1866-69. the reported deaths from wild beasts were 12,554, and from snakes 25,606; total 38,218, or 12,736 per annum. Government authorizes the giving of rewards tor the of destructive beasts in the killing neighbourhood of human habitations, and withdraws the prohibition issued against granting rewards for killing snakes. Such rewards are not to exceed two annas a head, and certain conditions are imposed on their bestowal. We doubt if much can be made on impression this serious nuisance by the fitful killing of a comparatively few individuals in the neighbourhood of habitations. a
