Show mw A chort time ago TH called attention to tha practice of using the east drain as a sewer and showed how unhealthy it was we have since heard many coin about the factory race ang used for purpose the custom beema to ba moro prevalent of emptying sewage into the race than into the drain many private residences residence a and bus anesa pi aces have pipes lead aag to the factory race and others contemplate using it for a sewer so aboa aa they can get the pipes laid we believe that in the most of cages permission haa been given by city dispose of buttee Butt be practice tica is a bad one and should be stopped the disease and death that may should be taken into consideration when the race is full of water which is usually during the cold or moat portion of the season tho danger ia not so great bat oven then it must bo remembered that the filth deposited in the stream collects on the banks and clinga to the brush and other vegetation growing along the race and this exposed to tho sun and atmosphere mo sphere causes putrefaction in the hot season however the water in the usually very low that is ila abate now and it may be understood by oba ervine it how dangerous 13 the practice of emptying much filth into the ace at the present diroa ti roa furthermore the location of tho factory race while convenient to use as a sewer oa account of it passing through the center of the city is ao situated that much sickness may re alt from its impure state there are complaints being made these days in bait lake because the jordan some two miles out of the city is being used to receive the city sewage it is declared that much typhoid fever las resulted if that be true ia not a good deal of our sick neca in provo traceable to the factory race aud the east dru n last spring a noted engineer from the pacific coast was in Provo aud he suid nature has been most lavish in this section she baa surrounded unde I 1 your city with bright skies and from yon majestic mountains are wafred wafted every evening invigorating breezed bree zea now you ought to reserve this condition by patting in a system of sewerage nothing but your superb physical surroundings have saved you from an epidemic ep in the past such was the verdict of a man who had made a special study of sanitary conditions in moat of the cities on the pacific coast we be leave he stated the case exactly right it must be alaia to every one that with one or two more hot summers such as we are haying this year aad an increased amount of carelessness careless nes in disposing of our much Ic kness if not an epidemic ep will ba the result |