Mr. Gardner. Where is the outlet of your sewers with respect to that ship channel?
Dr. Goodale. It goes out pretty near the channel.
Mr. Gardner. You do not treat your sewage at all, do you?
Dr. Goodale. No, sir. If I may be allowed to say it without being asked, I would state that we have the healthiest people that I know of anywhere around. We have no typhoid fever; we have no diphtheria, scarlet fever, or any of the contagious diseases. We are now suffering under the misfortune of having to quarantine people in order to keep out infantile paralysis from New York and other places south of us.
Mr. Gardner. Do you think you contribute anything to the good health of those farther down the river?
Dr. Goodale. No, sir; I do not think we do; that is, nothing except in the way of pure water.
Mr. Gardner. You think you have the advantage of them in obtaining pure water.
Dr. Goodale. Well, we have the same advantage that Detroit and Niagara Falls and those places above us have of us. We take their pollution, if there is any.
Mr. Gardner. The two cases are hardly parallel. You are right at the mouth of a big lake.
Dr. Goodale. Well, virtually we are. I think where the big lakes empty in is up about Cape Vincent and Kingston.