SANITATION ON TRAINS
SIR,—Some five years ago, I wrote to the Lancet pointing out the archaic method used in the lavatories on passenger trains, viz., discharge to the line, and indicating that the spread of poliomyelitis might have been asso- ciated with the attendant fweal spread. In reply I received a letter from the late Dr. Fuller, senior medical officer to British Rail- ways, saying that active research was going on on this matter.
About two years ago, Professor Burrows raised the same subject in a letter to The Times, but nothing has been done—not even on the Pullmans. I once had the doubtful privilege of inspecting the undercarriage of an excursion train at the end of its journey. Inured as I am to service in two wars, I would affirm that I have never seen a sight more revolting in my whole professional experience. hi air trans- port sanitary measures are governed by inter- national rules. Can some arrangements of elementary decency not be made standard, al least on our long-distance trains?—Yours faithfully,
W. GRANT HAUGH Carlton Club, 69 St. James's Street, SW1
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