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erage works ? Could the Borough. Council, under such, a 
heavy "burden, impose fresh taxes or borrow money to im- 
prove the streets ? and pave gutters which, in more than 
one instance, are no better than stagnant pools of putrid 
water ? 
How to dispose of the sewage of a large town ? this is a 
problem which has not yet found its solution. Dr. Parke's 
remarks in his “ Review of the progress of Hygiene during 
the year I860” “that the opinion seems still gaining ground 
that the great question of sewerage requires re-discussion. 
Although everybody is opposed to the use of cesspools, and 
though it is evident that well contrived and properly venti- 
lated sewers with a good fall and a proper supply of water, 
remove excreta most readily and economically from our ha- 
bitations, yet it cannot be denied that the existence of this 
underground net- work of tubes filled with hurtful gases 
which are continually drawn up into the houses in spite of 
all traps and valves, is a very great disadvantage. And 
the part that sewers themselves, if improperly contrived, 
can play in the dissemination of disease is now well known, 
and was acknowledged in the never-to-be-forgotten Wind- 
sor epidemic of typhoid fever to which a late national calam- 
ity has again called attention.” 
“ The plan of allowing the liquid part only of the excreta 
to pass into the sewers and retaining the solid part in closed 
boxes which are periodically carted away in boxes especi- 
ally contrived for the purpose, has now been in use in 
Paris, Turin, Milan and other cities, some years. At pre- 
sent, there is no good evidence of the effect of this arrange- 
ment on health, although doubtless the sewage matter is in 
a much better state for the farmer.” 
“At present, it would be difficult to express a decided 
