the earl of derby on sanitation.

Sanitary Science in Derby declaring as he did the other day at Liverpool that?" of all agitations that can be set on foot or imagined I can conceive none more entirely justifiable than an agitation for pure air, pure water, and freedom from poisoning from bad drainage. Sanitary reformers have a There

is, indeed, England when we

a

good

time

coming

for

find men like the Earl of

very wide field before them; but I must pass over that class of

questions with only one observation. "What we want in sanitary matters is, not so much better laws, as more effective machinery for enforcing them. There is power in the law, as it stands, to put down the worst kinds of nuisances, but there is nobody to take the initiative. Very few men like to put themselves in the invidious position of public prosecutors, and so we go on poisoning our rivers, fouling the air we breathe and water we drink. *

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What

we

want now is, not

so

much

a

new

minute and careful

scheme of

supervision particular show, but

dimensions, details, which do not make any which being looked after or neglected constitute the difference between an unhealthy and a healthy district." We should be glad to hear of politicians in this country adopting sentiments such as these with regard to sanitary matters. of little

as

a

more