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Water Company for having drawn " unfilterecl water for 

 " domestic consumption " during July and August, 1866, 

 from the Old Ford reservoir, to which fact had been 

 attributed the outbreak (or great aggravation of the out- 

 break) of cholera in the East of London of that year, 

 state (p. 26) as one of the conclusions they had come to — 



" That it is expedient that more stringent measures be 

 *' adopted to protect from ])ollution that portion of the 

 " Metropolitan water supply which is derived from the 

 " Lear 



And, finally, the Commissioners as in the case of the 

 Upper Thames recommended (among other recommenda- 

 tions) — 



" That after the lapse of a period to be allowed for 

 " alteration of existing arrangements it be made unlawful 

 " for any sewage, unless the same has been passed over 

 " land so as to become purified, or for any injurious 

 " refuse from manufactures or agriculture to be cast into 

 " the river Lea, or into any of its tributaries, and that 

 " persons offending in this respect be made liable to 

 *' penalties to be recovered summarily." 



15 July, 1867. In July, 1867, the Inspectors of Salmon Fisheries 

 Report of In- (Mr. Frank Buckland and Mr. Spencer Walpole) pre- 



spectors of sented their 6th Annual Report for England and "Wales. 



Salmon tish- ^ ° ^ 



eries, (Eng- Mr. Frank Buckland, after stating that his predecessor 



^ 1 ^\ (t^liG late Mr. Ffennell) had issued a series of questions to 



the Boards of Conservators of rivers, of which question 

 No. 12 related to ^^ pollutions^" gives in an Appendix at 

 pages 38 to 61 the answers received by the Inspectors to 

 that question. 



From these answers it appears that of 20 rivers named 

 in the Inspector's 3rd Rejoort, 1864, (page 14, ante) as more 

 or less polluted, 16 continued to be polluted at fully the same 

 degree, (especially the Docey and its tributary the Ttiymin 

 by the Dyliffa mine and by Sir John Conroy's), while 

 the names of about 16 additional rivers are given as suffer- 

 ing from lead mines and numerous forms of pollution, which 



