Finally, the Mains Drainage System Will Be Mandatory in Paris

It is painful to see the complete disinterest of the Public Authorities in the face of a question as serious as that of the mains drain. I say "painful", because it is a similar detail, -- can we call it a detail? that we notice in a more particular way, the most complete jemenfichisme of our Parisian city councilors. Let those among these gentlemen who do not have the mains drain at home make themselves known! "If there are any, as the other said, there are not heaps of them" That is why the matter is the least of their concerns.
The famous pumps are a disgrace in the twentieth century, and that does not do honor to those who govern us. To make them understand the justice of this purely popular demand, all the rich have the sewer system, it would be necessary to pick up half a dozen municipal councilors and lead them by the ear, in the month of August, to the houses still equipped with the putrid pit. Even if they do not have a developed olfactory apparatus, the pestilential, nauseating, malodorous and mephytic emanations reigning supreme in said houses, will make them flee these inhospitable places.
Let us hope that the bill, briefly set out below, will be sanctioned and put into force, for the greater good of our working populations.

André CHATELAIN.

The obligation to install the "sewer system", which. in Paris, currently only applies to owners bordering public roads, would be extended to owners of buildings whose waste water flows indirectly into these public roads, either through drainage easements on buildings bordering these roads, or via private roads (art. 1). A period of three years would be granted for the installation of "all-to-the-sewer" in old houses (art. 2), and sanctions, which had not been provided for in the law of July 10, 1894, would be applied to recalcitrant owners (art. 7). In addition, the City of Paris would be authorized to make, under certain conditions, advances repayable in ten annuities, to the owners of buildings already constructed.