A QUESTION OF THE CITY'S HEALTH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 10

A QUESTION OF THE CITY'S HEALTH.

Lecture Given at the New Women's Club. The members of the New Women's Club listened with interest to a lecture on sewerage given by Mr.. T. A. F. Stone, A.M.1.E., who has made a, close study of the subject, one which is exercising many minds at the moment. The speaker contended that it was wrong for sewage to go into the sea; it should be put back into the land where it belonged and where it was ot benefit to the whole animal kingdom. It placed in the sea it was only the solid mineral matter which sank; the bacteria floated on the surface, thus polluting the water in which were found those tiny organisms on which the fish lived. . Also, the floating bacteria were blown towards land, thus becoming a menace to health. It had been said that bacteria had only to be exposed to sunlight to be destroyed, but the discharginent might often happen at night, so the danger was present. Mr. Stone pointed out that in some parte of the world sewage farms had been found an eminently suitable way of not only disposing of the waste matter, but of its being utilised. A farm of four square miles would meet the' requirements of a city the size of Auckland. The president, Mrs. W. B. Darlow, presided. Mrs. G. Dyson, delegate from the club to the National Council of Women, read lier report. The hostess for the day was Mrs. Gimson.