The Noxious Gases Bill.

  • Midleton, William St. John Fremantle Brodrick, Earl of, 1856-1942.
Date:
1879
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Noxious Gases Bill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    courage to ‘ bell the cat.’ We want an easy method of obtaining a judicial decision which will protect the manufacturer from vexatious suits, while it will secure to his neighbours full compensation and a certain remedy for every wrong that they may suffer. More than one scheme for attaining this desirable object has been sketched out by competent authorities. The public will not and ought not to he satisfied until one or other of them he adopted. Justice to the trades already under the Alkali Acts demands that other not less frequent or flagrant offenders should be subjected to similar control. Justice to those manufacturers who have done their best to conform to the spirit of the law demands that those who have done otherwise should be compelled to amend their ways. Justice to the owners and occu- piers of the soil demands that the process of recouping themselves for proved inj uries should not be needlessly cumbrous or expensive. Above all, justice to the public at large, of which so large a portion is too poor or too ignorant to protect itself, demands that the noxious agencies which tend to deteriorate the vital force, to detract from the rational enjoyment of life, or to injure its morale, should be reduced, so far as human legislation can reduce them, to a minimum. Midletox.