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.

Date:
1876
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    valuable lives are being constantly sacrificed. The failures which attended many of the early efforts for the disposal of sewage refuse no doubt tended to rouse the opposition of the ratepayers, out of whose pockets the expenses of sanitary boards have to be defrayed. There could be no injustice, however, after so much careful consideration has been given to the subject, in passing a stringent prospective measure to prevent further pollution of rivers, allow- ing a moderate interval to elapse for the removal of existing sources of pollution. Greneral Scott was right when he said at Belfast ' Gro on, do some- thing to improve your effluent waters—time and the progress of knowledge will do the rest.' Pure air and water can scarcely be too highly valued, but the difficulty of enjoying the one or the other is heightened by the growth of our towns and the increase in our manufactures. The Rivers Pollution Commissioners urge upon the Grovernment the necessity for legislation with a view to the prevention, so far as may be practicable, of the continued pollution of rivers and streams; to prevent solid matter being thrown, or allowed to go, into a river; to prevent sewage going into a river ; and to prevent the river being polluted by the various works on its banks;—the standards of purity to be such as could be complied with by all parties interested, and Grovernment inspectors to be appointed for certain districts. Mr. Henry Tyson, of Hulme, suggests that an analytical chemist properly constituted (by examination) for a certain district