"A Local View of 1874"

The first year of our incorporation, our village began to show signs of improvement. The first of our sanitary by-laws, supplemented by visits from the Inspector of Nuisances, soon made a wonderful difference in our hitherto rubbish-filled back streets, neglected yards, outbuildings and slaughter houses. Previous to the change, cattle, pigs and geese ranged through the village as if it were a commons until they became an unmitigated nuisance. But, since, a wholesome fear of the "Pound" and the vigilant eye of the Official Corporation "pounder" have made a clean sweep of these unwelcome perambulators.

York Herald,January 8, 1875