Handbook of rural sanitary science : illustrating the best means of securing health and of preventing disease / by C.F. Gardner [and others] ... edited by Lory Marsh.

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1876
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    indicated. Instead, however, of having obtained a really good Eivers Pollution Bill as an instalment of legislation on this important subject, we fear there are ' looming in the distance' evidences that the Grovernment which spoke so encouragingly on coming into power will allow the golden opportunity to slip by them. To complete the great work of sanitary legislation, and to place England in the foremost rank of health-seeking nations, would require the enactment of the following edicts :— 1, The rivers and springs shall not be polluted. 2. The people shall have secured to them pure air in and around their dwellings. The means to be adopted for carrying out these two precious canons may be left with the greatest confidence to the Grovernment that will fearlessly undertake their enactment. Nothing short of this will accomplish the object in view. All legislation has been in the same direction; and we have now learned that, speaking broadly, the seeds of all pre- ventable diseases are taken into the system either through the water we drink or the air we breathe. We have in nature both these substances provided for us in a condition fit for our consumption; and it does not appear to be demanding too much to have them restored and preserved to us in the condition of purity in which our Maker gave them. It may perhaps appear unnecessary to enlarge upon the statements, and overwhelming evidence in support of such statements, to be met with in the previous pages of this work in confirmation of the