THE ELECTRICAL FUTURE
Sta,—Dr. Percy Dunsheath's article on the electrical future in your current issue prompts me to inquire whether the attention of electrical experts has yet been turned to the problem of providing the all-electric house or flat—particularly the latter—with some means of electrically consuming its own refuse. Refuse disposal without the aid of a kitchen fire or garden bonfire and in the absence (due to labour shortage) of adequate help from the local authority, is one of the problems of today. Pig-food left uncollected beyond a certain time merely becomes refuse of a peculiarly unpleasant type. The housewife may fully sympathise with the desire of the soil expert that as much waste organic matter as possible should be returned to the land, but she cannot have her back premises overrun with maggots. The problem is particularly acute in the many older houses now converted into flats. Will Dr. Dunsheath and his
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