At Syon no farm is meditated. London sewage would be
biologically purified, the liquid poured back into the unhappy Thames, and the sludge carted off, no one yet knows where. This must be an evil system. If, as in Western Australia, water can be delivered in large quantities at places some 400 miles distant, it must be possible to deliver sewage to places 20 or 80 miles from its source. As yet, in spite of the very rapid growth of the science of sanitation,- the disposal of rubbish or of sewage has not been tackled in a large way. Rubbish is shot anywhere, quite irrespective of the fitness of the receptacle, and now we have the greatest of county councils, often marked by conspicuous skill and public spirit, cansidering a proposal to spoil the loveliest of all urban views by a sewage works that would foul its own nest.
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