A NOVEL PROPOSAL.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 6953, 31 January 1890, Page 4

A NOVEL PROPOSAL.

There ii really no reason why the sewera of great cities ahoald not be made distributor* of bealth*giving instead of noxious vapors. Sir Edwin Chad wick, the veteran sanitary reformer, says : ft My pet project is to boild great towers in our cities and pump down the c/one from above. There ii a wonderful Amerioan machine for pumping whioh actarlly makes 1200 revolutions a seoond. Well, that would noon purify a ntiguborhood. At the base of St. Paa/s tbere is no ozone, there is at the aummit. How often my Government clerks have asked leave to take home their work, finding it impossible to do anything in the poisoned air of the great publ o offices 7 Tbi« system, about wbiob I b»T« consulted M, E ffel who thinks very highly of the idea, would effect » revolution ia the health of our great eitieg. On a very small scale it has been tried and found to answer perfectly on some of the great liners at sea." Znoldentally Sir Edwin •aid be bad originated the half-time system for soheol children, adding, " J strongly hold that if a obild ii to pre•erve his pewtri of mind be must never neglect physical txeroiie. I am delighted with these ohildren who have gone on strike, perfectly delighted, and Z sympathise with them entirely,"