SHOCKING CONDITIONS

At the Urban Council on Monday last, in his medical report, Dr. T. A. Smyth reported some cases of diphtheria and typhoid fever within the Urban district during the past month.

He also called attention to the defective housing accommodation in many parts of the town which had been reported upon in detail and he trusted the Council would do everything possible to provide suitable dwellings.

Mr. W. E. Trimble said that he had been at a meeting on Friday at which the question of Child Welfare was discussed, and he was astonished to hear Dr. Smyth state that in the town they had 300 insanitary houses.

He knew they had some filthy dens, particularly the White Hart, and he asked had not an order been made to close up that choice locality?

The Borough Surveyor (Mr. J. Donnelly) said that with reference to that, the Medical Officer condemned all the houses in the White Hart as unfit for human habitation a very long time ago, and frequently sanitary notices had been served upon the landlord.

Within recent times – within six months – a cellar that had been unoccupied for 15 or 18 years was opened by the landlord and set as a dwelling-house.

When this was found out, a notice was served to have the cellar vacated, and the statutory notices had since been served and legal proceedings instituted.

OBEY POLICE SIGNALS

The magistrates at Enniskillen Petty Sessions on Monday had before them a new type of case, in that drivers have failed to obey signals given by the police, and as the Court was satisfied that defendants were not aware sufficiently of the nature of the signals, they were dealt with very leniently.

The public, however, must understand that the police act for the public safety and that drivers must keep to the proper side of the road and obey the orders of the policeman placed on points duty who acts for the safety of the public.