Alfred Russel Wallace : Alfred
Wallace : A. R. Wallace :
Russel Wallace : Alfred Russell Wallace (sic)
The Sanitation of the Borough (S467a: 1893)
Editor Charles H. Smith's Note: A newspaper report containing an account of a few remarks
Wallace made during a local public meeting. Printed on page 6 of the 21 April 1893 issue of The
Western Gazette (Somerset). To link directly to this page, connect with:
http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S467A.htm
. . . Dr. Wallace informed the Inspector that many in the district did not believe in altogether
getting rid of manurial products, as was proposed by this scheme of sending the sewage out to
sea. He submitted that there was hardly any district in England affording greater facilities of
utilising the sewage on the land, and that this could be done at a minimum expense. He was of
opinion that the rise and fall of the tides would inevitably force back the sewer gases so as to be
prejudicial to health . . .
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