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" offensive to the eye, and repugnant to taste and smell, 

 " hut are chamjed into elements of disease and death. 

 " Where this state of things has existed for a long time, 

 " it cannot be remedied in a day. But no one who has 

 " paid attention to this subject has any doubt, that if a 

 " reasonable time be allowed for the carrying into effect 

 " of remedial measures, this can be done icithout at all 

 " seriously interfering icith the interests of trade and 

 " manufacture. 



" The country is greatly to blame for having permitted 

 " this evil to assume its present gigantic proportio7is , but 

 " if with our eyes fully opened, by the results of public 

 " enquiry, to its deleterious and demoralising influence, 

 " we permit it to continue and extend itself, we shall 

 " be unpardonable. 



" But we need hardly remind your Lordship that every 

 " day's delay will increase our embarrassments, and that 

 " the sooner a check is put upon the present wholesale 

 " wanton destruction of one of the first necessaries of 

 " life, the easier will be our return to that system of 

 " effectual preservation of our streams from which un- 

 " happily we have so widely departed." 

 " We have, &c. 



" (Signed) Ebury, 



" Shaftesbury, 

 " On behalf of the Sanitary Associations of 

 " Great Britain. 



" Saltoun, President, 

 " Llanover, Vice-President, 

 " Fisheries Preservation Association. 

 " To the Right Hon. 

 " Viscount Palmerston, k.g., 

 " &c. &c. &c." 



7th March, In the 3rd Annual Report of the Inspectors of Salmon 



3rd Annual Fisheries (1864), after instancing (from replies sent in by 



lleport of the Conservators of Rivers to the Inspectors, pages 20-22) 



Salmon the following rivers as variously polluted by gas and dye- 



Hsheries Avorks, seweraoje, paper mills, lead and other mines, petro- 

 (Lngland ...... 



and Wales), leum, tin, kianising, vitriol and creosote M'orks, viz , the 



pp. 20, 21, 22. Eden, Kent, Derwent, Calder, Dee {at Chester), Dovey, 



Tify, Rumney, Towey, Tave, Severn (at Gloucester), 



Wye, Usk, Tamer. Teighn, Bovey, Exe, Wear, South 



Tyne, and Tees, and some of them very grievously, as 



