Excerpt from North Carolina Medical Journal, Vol. 4: July, 1879 We cannot too soon determine how much more Of them we can spare, and raise our voices against their reckless waste and destruc tion. Again, the pollution Of streams and other sources of water supply, is the inevitable consequence Of increment Of population, provided, we do not alter our present system Of disposing of garbage, sewage, etc. If we are to take, therefore, no thought of the morrow with regard to these matters, it does not require any great acuteness of prevision, to see our posterity a few genera tions in the future burdened beyond endurance, with these, our sins Of emission and commission and to him whose ears are deaf to the warnings that go up now and then from the English Rivers Pollution Commissions and from other sanitary commissions, may come the self-accusation, In me all posterity stands cursed. The word prevention implies timely action, we have no time to lose. These agents of our destruction may work Silently, but they work incessantly; even their periods Of repose, may be but periods in which they gather increased strength and force to renew their des perate work Of death and dismay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.