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8. Cooking vegetables sold for human food 



within two months of irrigation (no 

 information). 



9. Sale of vegetables for cattle less than one 



month after irrigation 10 a day. 



10. Employment of vegetables for milch cows 



within six weeks of irrigation 10 



11. Effluent water not protected 25 



12. No good water supplied to sewage farm . . 10 



13. No good water supplied where wells are 



poisoned 10 



14. No list of zymotic diseases posted at door of 



Registrar's office 20 



Total .. 350 a day. 



For the purpose of observing how far the principles which are incul- 

 cated in this paper are carried out abroad, I visited last week the sewage- 

 ground of Paris, which is situated in the district left by a bend of the 

 Seine, between Asnieres and St. Denis. About one-twelfth part of the 

 sewage of Paris was distributed over the ground. It was pumped by an 

 engine over a bridge of the Seine to a small reservoir, from which it flowed 

 in a channel, to be subdivided into lesser channels to be distributed over 

 the soil. The principal canal was, curiously enough, carried by the high 

 road to St. Denis, so that travellers were exposed to its pestilential emana- 

 tions, which had the most awful stench, and which, under the proposed 

 regulations, would have exposed the authorities to a fine of 10 a day. 

 The position of the ground itself is not approved by the neighbourhood, 

 for which a fine of 50 a day would have been incurred. No good water 

 was supplied to the irrigation-ground, which would have rendered the 

 authorities liable to a fine of 10 a day, nor was good water supplied to 

 parts where the wells were poisoned, for which they would have been liable 

 to a fine of 10 a day. The sewage was not defecated, which would have 

 rendered them liable to a fine of 50 a day. 



Salad, as lettuce, endive, and it is stated celery, was grown upon the 

 place, for which a fine of 100 a day would have been incurred. I could 

 not ascertain that any precautions were taken to prevent cabbages and 

 other vegetables being used immediately after irrigation, though asparagus 

 was grown, which becomes most offensive when recently treated with 

 putrid sewage. There was no visible stream, so that the recommendatory 

 precautions against its improper use were not required, but the great 

 sewage artery was not covered, which would render them liable to a fine of 

 25 a day. Upon the whole, it is difficult to imagine how the French 

 people could possibly violate the laws of health, of physiology, and of 

 physical science, as they have done in the conduct of their sewage ; and 

 what may be the results, if twelve times the amount be conducted and 

 concentrated on one spot, may be difficult to be prognosticated. The state 

 of the case has been well set out in a petition to the Government from 

 the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. The petition was signed by 414 

 persons residing in the district, and was presented to the National 



