Show SEWERAGE AND sanitation THE city council have adopted the report of the committee appointed appoint cd to arrange a sewer district and have agreed that an assessment shall be made on the property in the district en an the real estate valuation of the present year bids are to be received for the work borki the approximate cost will be thus made known and the people to be benefited will have an opportunity to say whether or not they want the system established so far so good but one very important consideration the paramount one it seems is the building of the main sewer and chatis to be done with its contents when the system is in operation the people of I 1 sewer district number one may vote for double doable pipe system adopted by the council and for the special tax to construct it but when the filth from that district is drained into the main sewer where is it to be tak taken enand and what is to be done with it it seem to jis as that these are the first things to be decided Is the fluctuating jordan to be the recipient of the fal flood from jibe ahe city Is it to be carried into the lake or is it to be dumped down la in some other spot not at present determined then what will be the cost of the main sewer from its point of beginning to the as yet unknown spot where it is to terminate the cost to the taxpayers of the sewer district should not aslone be considered but the whole outlay to make the system operative be learned and made known the question of what to do with the sewage has become a serious one in many places where there are ample means sur for its conveyance swiftly flowing flo rivers have become so contaminated tamina ted with it that plans had to be devised to relieve the streams of the great deposits of filth even the metropolis tro polis polls ot of england with the broad thames running to the sea has had to adopt deodorizing deodor izing measures and turn its sewage into fertilizing materials quite recently the authorities of frankfort on the main have had to devise some method of purifying the abe sewage of the city before its discharge into the river it is now mechanically strained and then led very slowly through gli a clearing reservoir in which gypsum is employed and which af afterwards ter Ie becomes comes a better fertilizer for the process before the property owners of sewer district number one caulote can vote intelligently on the question to be submitted to them the should learn not only the cost of the system to be adopted what is going to be done wita wira tae sewage and there is another matter of importance if one sewerage district is established and the work of construction is commenced what about me other parts of the city so much larger iu area and in which sanitary meas ures are a necessity we again urge the importance of a regular and thorough inspection of outhouses out houses and enforced removal ot of refuse the adly diy earth method of defecation is natures own and is perfect it is also simple inexpensive and easy of adoption on tilis this subject we take the annexed from the Sani sanitary cary era a paper devoted to questions quest ians 01 this kind abe athe great question that puzzles sanitarians sanit arians is to do with wita tile the infectious infections microbes mic thic robes discharged into the sewage or night bight soil by the sick in every city with typhoid and scarlet lever fever diphtheria etc send them where you will ou oil land or water kneir persistent vitality makes them messengers of death tile the first remedy of course is a sanitary policing so thorough that such dicu arges can but rarely escape before removal but tor for security against the malign germs that mat cannot be kept out of sewage and night soil we believe that natures great a fec tant the kofl soi nas no equal on practical scale if properly manage d not crowded too hard with work given a reasonable task lor for he time to a given quantity ol of good dry soil it will promptly dige digest st aou ano absorb all organic matter without offense and by depriving the noxious nox ious germs therein ot ut must at least suppress their propagation and will probably secure either their ultimate extinction 0 or else theli tion alon to harmlessness by a series of natural attenuating cultures this goes farther than the defecation of ordinary and other waste matter it shows that dry earth disposes of disease germs erms that are only collected and not destroyed by sew age and never changed by merely floating in water the establishment of a sanitary system for the whole elly is the need of the present but bat as it affects the eu en tire body of the people and is not for the special interest of a moneyed locality it is not to be expected that the class that clamors for sewers therein will be particularly interested in so general an improvement nevertheless we urge it upon the attention ol of the municipal authorities for while we think that f hey should not dot b 3 swayed by the ot of a venal or jr abusive press we consider it the duty of journalists to point out what hey consider is for toe public benefit and that what they present IB reason and as representatives of public sentiment is entitled to fair and impartial consideration |