. The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science. be done; the public paidfor good water and why should they not be sup-plied with such. The people clamored for theenaction of certain laws whereby the contamin-ation of their supply might be prohibited. Af-ter an official investigation had been made, a billwas brought into the house for the purpose ofcompelling the owners of the tanneries to turntheir sewage into some other fitting conduitrather than the Mystic. The bill, however, died a premature deathand nothing was done for Boston. A few daysago M
. The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science. be done; the public paidfor good water and why should they not be sup-plied with such. The people clamored for theenaction of certain laws whereby the contamin-ation of their supply might be prohibited. Af-ter an official investigation had been made, a billwas brought into the house for the purpose ofcompelling the owners of the tanneries to turntheir sewage into some other fitting conduitrather than the Mystic. The bill, however, died a premature deathand nothing was done for Boston. A few daysago Mr. J. H. McDonough, a representative ofBoston, resurrected the bill in the garb of a sub-stitute bill allowing Boston to draw water fromthe Shawsheen river. In speaking on the bill,the gentleman from Boston said that Boston wasnow fast growing in population. Her peoplewould, in a few years to come, need more wateras the people of to-day want purer water. Theopportunity was now open for the city and itshould not be given but a passing notice. Theriver banks of the Shawsheen are not held by. 1 Pa-nchf —Tirsl nocr -— tanneries or any other kind of workshops; but,if Boston would not accept the stream now, itprobably would be contaminated and pollutedjust as the Mystic of the present day. Many of the members spoke pro and con butthe house refused to substitute by a vote of 109to 29. Last week another large fire visited us andentirely destroyed the Jslew England MechanicsInstitute, in which several lives were lost. Ispeak on this to cry down wire-screened win-dows or workshops. In this building one hun-dred men worked and the fire ate the buildingaway in less than twenty minutes after thealarm was given. The men upstairs, being inimminent danger, ran for the windows but couldnot jump out; a large wire window-screen closedall egress. Had it not been for these screensseven lives would not have been and architects should take heed. This week all the plumbing esta
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