COUNTRY LIFE
ONE of the movements of the day, which should be beneficent, but may be lamentable, is the decentralisation of factories. A number of the have been and are being set up in the valleys, and establish new source[ of likely river pollution. It is a mistake, apparently shared by the Lei Commissioners, for example, to suppose that the towns only are respon• sible. The Commissioners' apologia for the pollution of the Lea it singularly depressing. It seems to suggest that there is no remedy, if the logic of the general manager is to be accepted. He wrote: "There are various reasons for this (the pollution), over some of which the Board has 'no control. The latter are due to the war and are of a temporary nature only." If that means anything, it means that flu permanent causes are under the control of the Board ; and the fear it that they will remain permanent. There is no sign of any drastic effort to prevent numbers of streams being used as drains. Soon the only surviving life will be the grey sewer rat.
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