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" Wherefore your memorialists urgently submit that it 

 " is absolutely necessary that a Bill should he forthwith 

 " 2)repared under the direction of Her Majesty's Gocern- 

 " ment, and submitted to Parliament early in the ensuing 

 " Session, for enabling your memorialists, and other local 

 *' authorities similarly situated, to accomplish the very 

 " important objects herein set forth. 



" Given under the corporate common seal of the 

 " Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the 

 " Borough of Birmingham, the day of 



, 1864." 



2 Jan., 1865. " The Memorial of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of 

 the City of '' the City of York, the Local Board of Health of 



York to the « and for the same City, 



Home •' 



Secretary, " Sheweth, 



105, pp. 5 & 6, " That your memorialists regard the present mode of 



6 Mar. 1865.] " disposing of the sewage of cities and towns as highly 



" unsatisfactory , whether as regards the public health 



" or the economy of natural products applicable to the 



*' fertilization of the soil. 



" That the pollution of the rivers and streams of the 

 " country by the discharge therein of the sewage of 

 " adjacent towns is productive of great and increasing 

 " evils, by rendering the loaters of such rivers and streams 

 " unfit for human consumption, and converting what is 

 " often the sole xoater-supply of a town into the fruitful 

 " source of disease and death. 



" That a Committee of the House of Commons reported 

 Session 1864. " in the last Session of Parliament in favour of the practi- 

 " cability of utilizing such sewage by applying the same 

 " in the cultivation of the soil. 



" Your memorialists therefore respectfully request that 

 " Her Majesty's Government will be pleased to introduce 

 " such a measure in the next Session of Parliament. 



" Given under our Common Seal, at the Guildhall 

 " of and in the said City, this 2nd day of Janu- 

 " ary, 1865. 



" (Signed) Edwin Wade, Mayor." 



January 1865. 



Ileportofthe In January, 1865, the Special Commissioners on the 



missioners on Irish Salmon Fisheries, in their report for the year 1864, 



Salmon Fish- ^t page 17, mentionf that " the Liffey is fearfully pol- 



land). " luted by seivagc, which at certain j^lt^ces caused instant 



