, 1884-10-11
P R @ G { E D N IS
OF THE
FOR ST. CROIX.

The Governor: was willing to admit
the difficulty in the country districts III re-
gard particularly to the responsibility OF
Managers for the proper carrying out OF
the Sanitary Regulations, in as much as
Managers have not that power over the
~labOurers, which they possessed formerly.
But the responsibility must be understood
to be laid on the Managers so far that
the Government can expect the owner or
the manager for instance to tell the people
where to place the hog-pens or horse
stables, to help the Police to carry out the
orders and when labOurerS do not obey,
to report the cases to the Police; more
over to use their moral influence to try to
get the people to see the necessity OF DO
ing as they are told. He could agree Ill
the objection in so far as he could not see
how a manager could be punished for a
-tranSgreSSiOn not his own; but there may
also be cases where managers do not care
to obey the Rules, or where they them
selves tranSgreSs them or oppose their
being carried ont; in such cases, If proved,
they should be puniShed.-AS regards the
matter Of Registration of births and
deaths, on which the honorable 9TH
Crownmember Kalmer had commented,
he the Governor would acknowledge
that it is a very important matter for the
Island; and if he had an opportunity,
which he hoped to have, he should endea-
v0ur to have it rGmedied or regulated bet
ter. But that matter is not connected
with the Sanitary Conditions it bears
more upon the question OF Introducing
coronors inquest but this will be attend
ed with no small increased outlay this
difficulty was as far as he knew the rea-
Al.A ,F,,, l.@l ,oE i+lnu%O lNoDn
carried out.
End Member for Christiansted (Lcmmingl
would have liked very much to hear more
from the Government with regard to the
measures to be taken in the towns III SAM
tary respects. The Order Of 1865 deals
only with the country. The sanitary con
ditiOnS in the towns, but particularly III
ChriStianSted, require much more than
those in the country TO be improved. 1T Is
therefore very important to get to KNOW
something as to how it is to be remedied
in town. lie had now lived IS years in st.
CrOix, and all the time i'll ChrIStlanSted,
since 1870 in his present dwelling up near
Free Gut therefore he knows pretty well
how things are, and he would not hesitate
10 say that the sanitary regulations are
fearfulIy bad. Of the number OfhOgS kept
NIlIllu SuIdIl NdIuSS luC L OllCC a nO UN"'
In FrederikSted the Police some time ago
discovered between 500 to 900 hogs i'll that
town; here in ChriStiansted the number
must be double. 1t should be here as III
st. Thomas, that no hog pens whatever are
allowed in the towns, he would recon-
mend this to the consideration OF the Go
vernment ; it would be an easy thing to
carry out when, as we see, III the Order OF
1865 the matter has been once dealt with.
There is another awful thing, contrary to
all sanitary considerations, that namely the
very largest number of houses, particular
ly in the side streets, are not provided with
closets, and stuff that should be deposited
in the closets is therefore heaped up round
about near fences and in bushes, waiting
for a rain fall, when it is washed away fur
Their and spread.-Any how he fully agreed
in the proposals in this Draft and would
support them.
The Governor: 1t is no doubt an extra
ordinary state of things existing here III
that respect; but as hog-pens, have been
allowed in the towns from olden times he
would hesitate even if the Draft be passed
to make use of 5 3 to stop the practice at
once. Any how, that point deserves to be
taken under conside ration when the SAM
tary Regulations come before the Council.
1t is desirable that that practice could be
stopped, but it would be rather hard to
stop it suddenly, as a great many poor
people in town derive a support from the
kpeninr of hogs. But the Government