THE ELECTRICAL FUTURE
SIRS I should like to thank Mr. Scorer for one of the few practical suggestions for refuse disposal which I have encountered in some three years' campaigning on that subject. But while as a housewife I should rejoice to have the apparatus he describes installed in my kitchen, as a ratepayer and a citizen I feel I should point out certain drawbacks which it shares with the " Garchey System " employed in France and on one large housing estate at least in this country. It adds to building costs whether publicly or privately incurred, but as it does not deal with tins broken china, &c., it is from the point of view of municipal finance an extravagance, since it does not eliminate the need for the Corporation dust-cart service. It is, however, an improvement on the Garchey`system. as it does not involve special sewering. From the national point of view —i.e., the need for returning as much organic matter as possible to our hard-worked and impoverished fields—its desirability or otherwise depends on the local method of sewage disposal. Again, however, it improves on the Garchey system, as in that the refuse is burnt. Within the house it is obviously a most hygienic and desirable arrangement, and I shall do my best to make it more widely known.—Yours faithfully, D. M. VAUGHAN.
17 Warnborough Road, Oxford.
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