Descending from fun to filth. I learn from a leaflet
now being distributed in Bognor Regis that the bog part of this royal resort's double- barrelled name is no joke. Not since Butlin's arrived four years ago with some 70,000 happy campers on a busy day, anyway. According to the residents, the sewage from the holiday camp goes straight into the sea untreated and can actually be seen doing so. The local authority itself is not apparently immune from criticism as it has failed to invest in a sewage-treatment plant.
Two or three years ago medical officers of health were to be heard muttering about the possible link between untreated sewage dis- charged direct into coastal waters in which people bathe and the summer-time outbreaks of poliomyelitis that we have experienced. Whether any such connection has been scientifically estab- lished, I do not know. But I do know how I feel about swimming in waters containing the refuse of a town's lavatories. Bournemouth and Worthing have. I understand, stopped the dump- ing of raw sewage. But why is not this terrify- ingly unhygienic practice illegal?
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