, 1885-04-25
P R 0 c E L D | N G S.
OF THE
FOR ST. CROIX.
tCoaclmsion Of Meeting Of 18Th April
1885. Discussion on Sanitary RegulatiOnS)

with the most Of the remarks from the last
honourabI. Speaker. He must then also
admit that hogpens and water closets
are two great evils, in the towns especially;
the one cannot he done without, but it
might be remetied, particularly by the use
Of dry earth; but pits III closets are de
ciledly objectionable, particularly az one
party has the closet on his ground. but the
next neighbour is mostly the sufferer. AS
regards hog-penS and the keeping Of swine
on the whole, this is not Il necessity. and 1t
il really a very great detriment; the Go
yernment's pro ,oSal would throw all the
cenSure to he incurred by preventing the
nuisance, on the Board, while it would be
a very easy thing to say no hogpens at all
are to be kept except at Il certain distance
from buildings or dwellings,. AT present
he believed there is no law to prevent Il
person from having a hOgpen OH a corner
of his lot away from his W dwelling but
near to his neighbours dwelling. In the
country hOgppnS are not allowed otherwise
than to the leeward of the villages in fact,
the people in the country are better lookel
after in this respect than those III town
but the matter is one that ought to be re
medied nOw.
2nd Member for Frpderiksted'S Country
District Hcwitt) said he would like to Call
dUUtutlOI " , L y Il4ONI AliS lh"S ~ NiN"'
ing of markets and pubic places shall be
done by public arrangement, and that The
streets Of the towns at suitable times ami
at public expense shall be traverSed by
covered carts to take mp the dirt. He
considered it very hard that while villages
on estates are to be kept clean Ivy he par
ty to whom they belong, and while estate
owners have to repair roads at Their own
expense, in town all the repairs of this
kind as we'll as the cleaning are to be done
at public expense; it is hard that IN this
way the estate prOprietOrs shall by their
taxes contribute towards the keeping ci' "a
and towards the repairs in town, besides
having their own road work and DONG
their own work. This is an ii %ralEemrnt
from slave time, when estates and their
prOprietorS were better off, and hence it is
hard, now at these times particularly, to
exact the sans from estate prOprlet0rS.
The time must come when the towns must
defray their own expenses for these pur-
poses, the same rs the country does now,
and estates not have to pay for their W
work and also join in the expenses for the
town. He could not vote for this Draft
with a clause of this nature. he would
further call attention to 81, according to
which no burialS can taxi place outside
the public cemeteries and no flle a cere-
m0ny in the church unless the c)ttl IS
made of zinc, or if the Coffi be OF wood,
tho corp is SurrOun lei BY ch lrcoal. h
must say he found this Il most unnecrSIA-
ry and unusual provision. When persons
die from natural causes and not from a"y
epidemic, there is scarcely any need to go
to such extremes az those here named ami
it would surely lead to inconvenience.
Few parties are able to provide zinc, and
charcoal requires extra preparation to be
used for this purpose.
5th Crownmember Kalmer would, in
regard to the last question of Tie h%onOura-
BILE Member, beg to recall to mind that
there was q time when it was not uncom-
mon to bury corpseS in the churches, Il
pra etice which was continued for many,
many years, but which was ultimately
stopped because it was found to be an un-
healthy thing; the same reason has led to
the proposal to do away with the ordinary
method followed by having corpS's in
church or elsewhere until the funeral ser
vice can be completed, a practice which
can also be deleteri0uS to the health OF
others ever where no epidemic exists; for
a corpse is a corpse, and especially i'll a
tropical climate the dan ger is greater and
commences at an earlier stage. But he
could not consider the measures proposed
as being hard to fulfil the one condition,
namely that of surrounding the body with
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