350 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECTIONS 
Notes on the Sanitary Condition of the Eastern 
uburbs, etc. 
By F. H. Quatre, M.D. (Univ. Glas.) 
[Read before the Sanitary Section of the Roya! Society of N.S.W., 
19 October, 1886.] 
ven in the higher parts of our suburbs we are met by gutters 
full of dark ill-smelling water, and, especially where the fall is not 
good, it lies and decomposes and finally dries combined with what 
should be street sweepings, to be blown by the winds into the open 
_ windows of the houses or even into water tanks, which are 
municipal authorities have exhausted their wits in trying tempo- 
rary measures, But the deodorants are fleeting and the decom- 
posing matters seem eternal. 
you go along the low part of Glenmore Road across the 
valley near the bridge you will find a sluggish stream winding 
round some land supposed to be a recreation ground and mean- 
dering through the Chinamen’s gardens below the road on its way 
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