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" That a Committee of the Honourable the House of 

 '*' Commons inquired into this subject during the last 

 " Session of Parliament, and recommended in their 

 " report thereon ' that the irnjwrtant object of completely 

 ''freeing the entire basins of rivers from pollution should 

 " be rendered possible by general legislatice enactment.^ 



" That your memorialists fully concur in this recom- 

 " mendation, and see no reason why the penalty for dis- 

 " charging sewerage into rivers should not be made as 

 " simple and effective in app>licatio7i as the law noio 

 " makes the penalty for injuries done to highways. 



" Your memorialists therefore pray that you will in- 

 " troduce a Bill in the next Session of Parliament to 

 " carry out the recommendation of the Parliamentary 

 " Committee herein rehearsed, and effectually prohibit 

 " sewerage and any foul and offensive matter from 

 " being discharged into streams and rivers. 



" All which is respectfully submitted. 



'•' Given under the Corporate Common Seal of the 

 " said Borough of Sheffield, this 12th day of 

 " October 1864. 



" (Signed) Thomas Jessop, Mayor." 



At a meeting of the Sanitary Committee and other 8 Dec, 1864. 

 Public Bodies of Nottingham, it was {inter alia) resolved : ■'^^^o 1^ ^^J^ 



" That in the opinion of this meeting the time has Meeting ot 

 " arrived when provision should be made by the Legisla- Committee 

 " ture for enabling, and (when needful) requiring, the and other 

 " sewage of towns and villages to be applied for the Public 

 " benefit of adjacent districts of and, instead of polluting ,^°^^^^.° 

 " the waters of rivers and brooks, and also for enforcing, ^^„^°)> fgfj 

 " as far as practicable, that the noxious refuse arising warded to 

 " from trade works be purified before it enters any stream Home 

 *' of water, and the more solid parts of such refuse be Secretary. 

 " separated and retained on the land." ^^J^' ^^^^ 



" That the powers of the ' Public Health Act' and eth March 

 " ' Local Government Act' do not completely meet the 1865.] 

 " wants of the case, and they give no powers to restrain 

 " the pollution of streams, and cannot give that combined 

 *' action over an extended area or watershed embracing 

 " several parishes, which is essential for providing an 

 " efi'ectual remedy. 



" That the neighbourhood of Nottingham shows the 

 " mischief resulting from the present state of things. 



" That impure liquid matter from the manufactures 

 " and population of Old Lenton, near Nottingham, flows B 



