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48
EAST LONDON WATER COMPANY'S
SUPPLY WITHIN THE CITY
OF LONDON.
The difficulties which arose in consequence of
the enforced suspension of the "constant" service
of the East London Water Works Company did
not depend exclusively upon a diminished supply,
but rather from the absence of proper storage of
water for domestic and sanitary purposes. The
abolition of cisterns in houses of any class would
be bad enough, but in those divided into tenements
for occupation of the poor, the want of
such receptacles involves an amount of suffering
wholly inconceivable to persons possessed of such
conveniences.
To what extent the absence of such receptacles
was responsible for the misery inflicted
upon the poorer customers of the Company need
not be discussed here.
The area supplied by the East London Water
Company in the City of London is shown by the
Plan hereto attached, and the following Table