Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 03 February 1893
Sanitary Condition of Conisborough.
Some complaints reach me as to the sanitary condition of our little town, Conisborough.
Surely it is time to wake from our lethargy and do something. Open sewers, polluted streams, and putrid cesspools are serious matters.
I should think it sounds meeting will be the best remedy for obtaining the real facts as the state of the parish. Will someone move in the matter, and once for all attempt to remedy the grievances which has so long been a disgrace to all concerned. Conisborough is bound to develop, but a series check will be found unless sanitary matters are taken older firmly and at once.
Ivanhoe