Lsr a previous issue we published an article from the '* Engineering " upon Captain Lieenitb's Sewerage System, and in our present number will be found a letter from Mr P. W. Conead with reference to it. The position Mr Conrad holds as chief engineer and inspector of the Netherlands, and President of the Royal Institute of Engineers, gives great weight to his opinion on matters of this kind. He has obtained a European reputation as a man of science, and consulting engineer for many of the most extensive drainage works being carried out ou the Continent, in imitation of the most improved system of sewerage adopted in London, and his conversion to the system of Captain Liebnttb — we say conversion, because, for a time, he did not deem it practicable — may be taken as evidence that the discovery ia of no small importance. In drawing attention to this subject it is not with the idea that the system could, at the present time, be applied to this town. Its importance is, however, of universal interest. In every thickly populated town the malaria arising from defective drainage, the impurity of the water arising from the nitration of impurities into wells and rivers, has been the parent of deadly contagious diseases of almost every description. By the system propounded by Captain Lieenue such evil effects are obviated, and what is now deemed valueless, and destructive to human, life, converted into a powerful, useful • article. By its adoption health in towns will be . promoted, and agriculturalists greatly benefited. It is a subject of importance, and the system will, no doubt, be speedily adopted in Melbourne and the chief towns of the Australian and New Zealand Colonies. One of the recommendations of this system is that, with a population of say 2000, the machinery required is propor-
tionally less costly than that required for a town with ten thousand inhabitants, and can be extended from time to tim^, as an increase of population may render necessary, without disturbing the works already constructed.
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Southland Times, Issue 1014, 2 September 1868, Page 2
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