Show THOSE AMERICAN cities which Persist in I the use of water courses for bewelS should learn a lesson fiom London whose great I sewer Is the Thames river According to Dr POOKE who has made sanitary matters a careful study 23 per cent of the people of London ave recour to the hospitals during the year the s kness arising largely from the fact that the Thames is the receptacl for the sCage of that reat city 150000000 > gallons of the fllth flowing into the stream ojeij tuenU four hours The effect is naturally and necessarily disastrous dis-astrous to those who use the Thames water and to the population in the alley of that river The doctor says that unless a change shall be male in the system of dis potinPf the filth U will not b < > a New Zealander hut a Chinaman who will sit on the ruins of London bridge and contemplate contem-plate a city passed away It is coming to bo acknowledged that in the absence of tide water the safest and best plan for disposing dis-posing of sewage is that which returns the matter to earth the great deodorizer and destroyer of disease germs Berlin is among the healthiest tha populous cities and this is attributed to the fact that the river which flows through it is not polluted with filth the sewage being carried away to farms where the soil des de-s > troj s its diseasebreeding properties |