4 miles of pipe requested

In the legislative assembly last week Mr. Prendergast said he would like to draw the attention of the Premier to the complains made in regards to the Greenvale sanatorium.

He (Mr. Prendergast) had not complained himself, but he believed that that sanatorium could not be fully utilized in consequence of the inferior water supply.

he had been to the place two or three times and knew that the water supply could not be kept pure at present, because it was obtained from under the hill on the side of which the sanatorium was situated. The institution would be a permanent one, and the ground would be reserved for the purpose.

The place was very suitable, and he would ask the Premier to agree to lay down the four miles of pipes, so that it would be possible to obtain the Yan Yean water.

A great deal of the usefulness of the institution would be taken away unless the necessity of obtaining the water from the dam at the bottom of the hill was abolished.

They had to cut a drain down the side of the hill to take the drainage away from the sanatorium, or otherwise the whole of the drainage would run into the dam at the bottom of the hill.

Mr. Bent – I will instigate the matter. Mr. Prendergast asked if the honourable gentleman would agree to lay down the four miles of pipes so as to make the institution as useful as it ought to be.

This was one of the best institutions in Victoria. He hid no complaint to make about the management.

The Greenvale sanatorium had done, more to cure people suffering from the terrible disease of tuberculosis than any other single agency had done, up to the present time, in this country.

He strongly recommended the Premier to, extend the Yan Yean supply to tile sanatorium sort that the institution might occupy its full sphere of usefulness, and so that consumptives might be sent there to enable them to have a chance to recover.

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