AUCKLAND DRAINAGE
Sir, —May 1 draw attention to a new aspect of the above subject now being discussed —an aspect that concerns the future health of the community, apart from the pollution of the harbour. Reports of certain scientific investigations in Europe and the United States show, I understand, that the serious increase of late years in "deficiency" diseases in those continents is partly due to the civilised system of sewage disposal into the sea or rivers, by which valuable mineral salts and life-giving elements, originally obtained from the soil are permanently lost to it, to an increasing extent every year. It is calculated that, by such methods of sewage disposal, the soil of the United States is being deprived annually of 230,000 tons of such fertilising salts. One report even goes so -far as to say that the size, health and mental developments of European races are being affected by such losses to the soil. A new scientific system of sewage disposal on a large scale by its dispersal underground is adv#;ated. Thomas A. F. Stone.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22211, 11 September 1935, Page 17
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177AUCKLAND DRAINAGE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22211, 11 September 1935, Page 17
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