352 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECTIONS. 
unfit for use. 
wing to the way in which the land has been subdivided, and 
thickly crowded with dwellings, mostly of the terrace order, with, 
in many cases, small back yards with not a yard of garden soil 
available, the only possible method of getting rid of the liquid 
slops of the dwellings has been to discharge them into the nearest 
gutter. Some of the boroughs have, I know, by-laws prohibiting 
this practice, but they are necessarily nearly everywhere a dead 
letter. Matters specially fecal are being dealt with either by the 
old cesspit system or by earth-closets. The evils of the former I 
bourne pail system, and is a great nuisance; in fact efforts are now 
‘system in the most perfect way possible. It is a very larg? 
question and should be dealt with in a broad way. It should not, 
