Excerpt from Transactions of the Second Annual Conference of State Sanitary Engineers: Held at Boston, Mass;, June 1, 2, 1921 It may be of interest to point out that more effective results are obtained by quoting fire insurance rates before and after installation of a water system, than by mere reference in general terms to public health benefits. By the same process of appealing to the individual's pocketbook instead of to his heart, it is usually wise to keep the total cost of a project in the background, while emphasizing the low annual cost to individual property holders. The plan of financing advocated for both water and sewerage systems need not be gone into in detail here. Its general principles are as follows: Public and private benefits are separately considered. The pay ments of fixed and operating charges are kept distinct. The annual cost of the bond issue for constructing both systems is met by a combination of property tax, annual front-foot assessment, and house connection charges; the cost of maintenance Of both, by meter service and water consumption rates. These various charges are distributed in such manner that the expense falling upon any individual, public or private, is as nearly as possible proportionate to the benefits which he derives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.