. The sanitation of cities. 116 CHAPTER XIIICONCLUDING REMARKS Considering the vastness of the subject, wehave presented a very brief review of the Sani-tation of Cities. With our rapidly increasingpopulation, and the almost magical growth ofcities; with problems of housing, providingmarkets, means of industry, and of recreation,etc., into all of which sanitary questions enter,the immensity of the sanitation of cities prob-lems is apparent. Of necessity, we have beenforced to limit the various questions discussed tobroad principles. A thought that we wish to convey in con-clusion is the unity


. The sanitation of cities. 116 CHAPTER XIIICONCLUDING REMARKS Considering the vastness of the subject, wehave presented a very brief review of the Sani-tation of Cities. With our rapidly increasingpopulation, and the almost magical growth ofcities; with problems of housing, providingmarkets, means of industry, and of recreation,etc., into all of which sanitary questions enter,the immensity of the sanitation of cities prob-lems is apparent. Of necessity, we have beenforced to limit the various questions discussed tobroad principles. A thought that we wish to convey in con-clusion is the unity of municipal problems, andparticularly the problems relating to may be said that these problems are reallyone, which might be generalized as the HumanProblem. Wastes of all kinds are the result of humanlife; whether derived from the home or thefactory, they must be disposed of. Pure watermust be obtained and supplied in an unfailing 117. o t: r~ V o *^ -^ 1j o b/; > ^ h- OJ ;J 0; 1-J u rt >? 1- ^ « u U-l z Secticd sanittructed / R fi ^^ o sere Oder \et o U-l fineSt mlant n o ^ Q — rt <u Di a. rn ^^ pS ?£; 2i ^ o u & ii8 ConcluMiui IRcniarl^s stream, regardless of cost, but funds must be ex-pended with a wise economy. To these matterswe have given our principal attention in thisstudy. It is evident that we have been discussing butone problem of many parts, and that it is of suchextent that even if presented in many more pagesthan we have used, the subject would be far fromexhausted. The most we can hope for is that ina brief space we have given the reader a picture ofsome of the larger problems involved, at least, withwell defined outlines of the Sanitation of Cities. 119 Designed and Illustrated byFRANKLIN V. SIKES, Inc., New \ Printed by THE DE VINNE PRESS, New York


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