RIVERS POLLUTION.
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do possess some slight medicinal properties as shown by the
effect the water at Tilbury and Hockley produce in the case
of cattle, as noticed above.152 This effect cannot, of course, be
ascribed to the fidei quantum sufficiat which may have been
operative in the case of human patients.
RIVERS POLLUTION FROM THE
NATURALISTS' POINT OF VIEW.
Saturday, December 14TH, 1907.
A very largely attended and representative meeting resulted
from the invitation of the Council of the Essex Field Club to a
Conference on the above subject, held in the Municipal Technical
Institute, Stratford.
The Conference was called because the Club recognised that
the subject of rivers pollution is a matter which is of very
special interest to sanitary inspectors, the representatives of the
fishing industries, and to manufacturers, as well as to scientists
and the public at large, in view of the probability of legislation
on the subject.
Previous to the meeting tea was served in the tea-room of
the Institute.
At six o'clock the Mayor of West Ham (Councillor J. R.
Moore-Smith, J.P.) took the chair, his place being subsequently
occupied by the President of the Club, Mr. Miller Christy,
F.L.S.
In the assembly were naturalists, geologists, meteorologists,
sanitary officers and representatives of Water-boards and
County and Borough Councils. Among those present were :—
Mr. E. Barnard, M.P. (Chairman, Works Committee, London
Water Board), Professor E. G. Coker, D.Sc. (Engineering Depart-
ment, City Guilds Institute), Mr. W. H. Dalton, F.G.S., F.C.S.,
Mr. L. V. Dalton, F.G.S., Alderman W. W. Glenny (Vice-
Chairman, Essex County Council), Mr. David Howard, J.P., F.C.S.
Past-President, Society of Chemical Industry), Mr. S. R. Hobday
(Lee Conservancy Board), Mr. A. F. Hogg, M.A. (Principal,
Technical Institute), Mr. T. V. Holmes, F.G.S., Mr. Albert E.
Jackson (Editor, "Anglers' News"), Dr. Robert Jones, Mr. H. Kent
152 See ante, pp. 220 and 245.