River Pollution in Allahabad.

MR. Kapiladeva Malaviya, writing in a recent issue of the Leader, points out that no fewer than 1,758 human corpses are floating in the Ganges. A number of prominent men spent a whole day in Allahabad moving about in the river on boats, counting the corpses. This is an appalling state of river pollution whose effect on the health of the town cannot be a matter of indifference to the authorities. The municipal authorities have engaged men to remove the corpses and burn them, but the work is slow and unsatisfactory and the continued throwing of corpses threatens to add to the appalling number already floating. More effective action should be taken to prevent people from continuing this scandalous way of disposing of the dead and to remove the corpses.