OCR Text |
Show I li THE SEWAGE SYSTEM. !i Why the Sanitary Engineer Will Fiuare Far More in the Future. ."With the growth of modern cities comes up the question, what to do with the filth and waste. Some years ago London, to j save the Thames from pollution, built a system of tunnels to convey the sewage to a distance, but the city has grown bo lately that new works are indispensable, and new tunnels are projected to cost Ii. $22,000,000, but it will convey the waste of the city only fifteen miles. A Btill , bolder project is to construct works cost-pi cost-pi ! ing $500,000,000, which will convey the , filth right across the country and empty i' it into the sea at Thames Haven. Mad-j Mad-j rid. Rome, New York, Boston, rhiladel-4 rhiladel-4 phia and San Francisco, are all engaged j ;: on the. same problem the disposafof itt S6 and the protection of the water i t supply. But in every one of these cities 14 expert engineering talent is being em-' f If ployed in a thorough study of the con-ti con-ti ditions before plans are formulated or f. 11 the expenditure of money author- i' , !f ized. Chicago is wrestling with the i, ' same problem, and one of the argu- '. I ments for the construction of an artificial j j- river running southwest is that it will I drain Chicago of its filth. The growth of I! I - cities in these times is phenomenal. il Population gravitates to the centers, and I hence the pressing necessity for some Ml means of getting rid of the cities' waste, j; It is now settled beyond all doubt that i :i typhus fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever, I small-pox, many of the disorders called j ! I malar' - 'n fact, more than half the dis- ease ; -ie die of come directly from j the. conditions in which the people in 5 ; cities ar forced to live. The sanitary I : engineer will figure far more in the fu- I if ture than he has in the past. Demor- I ftVt YottfMy. |