PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECTIONS, 351. 
to the bay, whose exhalations are painfully apparent to the least 
sensitive nose. In heavy rains I have seen a cataract leaping 
down into that glen from a cliff, but it did not sparkle like those 
of the mountain, but was of a muddy brown colour and consis 
Upper Paddington. Higher up, the same stream, which for years 
has contaminated the air along Broughton’s wall in Cascade-street, 
is now being turned into a sewer which will for the present end 
at the before-mentioned cliff. Another filthy stream runs from 
Lacrozia Valley and joins those above mentioned and flows into 
the Rushcutters’ Bay, through the Bridge on New South Head 
Road. Before the foreshore there was reclaimed the stench 
was awful, and I orry to see that a delta is now fo 
the bay and that soon it will be nearly all filled up 
shallow tidal s west of rling Point us 
reek with and even now the reclamation does not go 
t 
so far out as the tide recedes. Numerous cases of typhoid 
have occurred in the houses on Darling | Point, along that oad and 
many in workmen engaged in the sewer 
into the head of the bay. T might multiply sreikpler wien 
limit, but I sacs notice One or two more. Round the north-eastern 
the ae _ and so into aa water ae of the _ Higher 
up there is only a thin layer of earth or sand over rocks, and d after 
rain you will see water oozing out all over at the edges of the 
rocks, so that much yee must come from everywhere on sia 
western side of the ridge canno’ 
In some of the gutters ye stench is so peculiar that one t 
help thinking that fecal matters have overflowed, or arn 
got into them. No doubt deficient yee supply aggravates in the 
evil ; but though more water would h purify a jon 
upper parts it would only carry me offensive matters 
neighbours lower down flooding, 
pparionnliy worse things happen. During very Gnderwood 
— “ig me ago I was ras nee along a lane on the 
te, Paddington. ‘This lane was so full of water, ramming 
=r that, I nae to pick my ei along the edges, and no 
