§ MR. DIMSDALEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, considering the imperfect results obtained by the Thames Conservancy Act of 1866, and the Lee Conservancy Act of 1868, and that the Rivers Pollution Commission has never completed its labours, he is prepared to give a definite assurance that he will introduce a general measure for the prevention of the pollution of rivers by sewage early next Session?
MR. BRUCEsaid, in reply, that if the measure which had passed through that House received the Royal Assent, this subject of the pollution of rivers by sewage would pass into the hands of the Poor Law Board. It would certainly be one of the subjects that would be submitted for consideration next Session.