It has been demonstrated time after time throughout the world that improved methods of living cannot be forced on a people who do not realize the benefits that might be devived therefr=m, witness, for a general example, the case of prohibition in the U.S.A, A minor specific example occurred a few years ago in New York City, where millionaire philanthropist" built a "Model Tenement." The families that were moved into it from the slums found that the beautiful white bathtubs with which their new quarters were furnished served excellently as containers of the family supply of coal, The remedy which occurs to a foreign engineer, when he first observes conditions in an un-sewered city of China, is that a sewer system should be constructed at once; and that this system should follow, ina general way, the systems now in use in his own ' country. 'This would incide the discharge of the raw sewage into the most convenient stream, if the amount of water Slowing therein. be sufficient for safe dilution, or, if not, then the instal-Jntion of a septic' tank, or Inhoff tank, or some other of the modern devices employed in the reduction of harmful bac
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