es, streets, and yards is
in this way removed daily, and transported to the city farms for
utilisation.
Two additional conveniences are supplied by the scientific work of
the sanitary establishment. From steam-works steam is condensed, and
a large supply of distilled water is obtained and preserved in a
separate tank. This distilled water is conveyed by a small main
into the city, and is supplied at a moderate cost for those domestic
purposes for which hard water is objectionable.
The second sanitary convenience is a large ozone generator. By this
apparatus ozone is produced in any required quantity, and is made to
play many useful purposes. It is passed through the drinking water
in the reserve reservoir whenever the water shows excess of organic
impurity, and it is conveyed into the city for diffusion into private
houses, for purposes of disinfection.
The slaughter-houses of the city are all public, and are separated
by a distance of a quarter of a mile from the city. They are easily
removable edifices, and are under the supervision of the sanitary
staff. The Jewish system of inspecting every carcase that is killed is
rigorously carried out, with this improvement, that the inspector is a
man of scientific knowledge.
All animals used for food,--cattle, fowls, swine, rabbits,--are
subjected to examination in the slaughter-house, or in the market, if
they be brought into the city from other depots. The slaughter-houses
are so constructed that the animals killed are relieved from the pain
of death. They pass through a narcotic chamber, and are brought to the
slaughterer oblivious of their fate. The slaughter-houses drain into
the sewers of the city, and their complete purification daily, from
all offal and refuse, is rigidly enforced.
The buildings, sheds, and styes for domestic food-producing animals
are removed a short distance from the city, and are also under the
supervision of the sanitary officer; the food and water supplied for
these animals comes equally, with human food, under proper inspection.
One other subject only remains to be noticed in connection with the
arrangements of our model city, and that is the mode of the disposal
of the dead. The question of cremation and of burial in the earth
has been considered, and there are some who advocate cremation. For
various reasons the process of burial is still retained. Firstly,
because the cremation process is open to serious medico-legal
objections;
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