A Treatise on the Law Relating to the Pollution and Obstruction of Watercourses, together with a Brief Summary of the Various Sources of Rivers Pollution

Abstract

THE pollution and obstruction of rivers by sewage and the refuse of manufacturing processes is, in a country like this, densely populated and depending mainly on its manufactures, a matter of the gravest importance, justifying indeed, a saying of Earl Beaconsfield's, which has met with a good deal of ridicule, that the motto of his government should be sanitas sanitatum omnia sanitas. We have on the one hand to preserve as rigidly as possible the purity of our streams, and on the other to interfere as little as can be with those manufactures which are so great an element in the production of our national welfare.

A Treatise on the Law Relating to the Pollution and Obstruction of Watercourses, together with a Brief Summary of the Various Sources of Rivers Pollution.

By Clement Higgins, Barrister-at-Law. (London: Stevens and Haynes, Law Publishers, Bell Yard, Temple Bar, 1877.)