[To the Editor of the SrEcrs.ioa.]
Sra,—It was with relief I read in this week's number of the Spectator that it is possible a crusade may be started against the scandal of the rubbish heaps of Great Britain. One of their iniquities you did not state—i.e., the incubation of rats. We live half a mile from the rubbish deposit of a small town, Lyme Regis ; in vain do we kill down our rats ; their place is at once filled by a migration of rats from the-town midden, the rats seeming to have an infallible instinct when room has been made for them. We suffer from another refuse dump near by on the Charmouth-Lyme road, which has so subsided that it can only be used by foot passengers. The road is so beautiful that were it not public, there undoubtedly would be started an outcry that it ought to be preserved for the people. As it is public, the village—or villagers—of Charmouth have adopted it- for their: refusedump.—I am, Sir, &c.,
A SUFFERER. .
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