Lifetime Costs: The typical total cost for a new septic system over a 20 year period is $6,300 to $13,000 for trenches and mounds, or $13,500 to $32,000 for alternative treatment systems. For multi-household systems, typical trench or mound systems range from $18,500 to $25,000.
Or perhaps because they only looked at children with autism in the Amish community. I wonder if they looked into how many Amish get things like chickenpox, smallpox, mumps, diphtheria, measles, rubella, whooping cough, shingles, the flu, HPV, rotavirus, etc etc.
There are about 200,000 Old Order Amish living in more than 200 settlements in the United States and Canada; the largest communities are in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, and Kansas, and others exist in Wisconsin, Missouri, and Minnesota.