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Parish of Saint George the Martyr, Southwark.
of being what they were created to be refreshing, cleansing and health giving , they ha???
become ugly, disgusting, and destructive. They had been made the recipients and carris???
of whatever refuse and foulness was most convenient to be poured into them from man???
tures, miner, and similar works, and which to have conveyed to some more suitable location
would have involved labour and expense. Our manufacturers will no longer be a liber???
thus to act, and this compulsion will, as it has so often done in other cases, lead to the
discovery of what is valuable, in that which they have hitherto thrown away as valua???
Dr. Tilt, Lecturer on Chemistry to the London Hospital, has published analyses
the water supplied by the eight London Companies, for the last ten years, and as the
result of these analyses states, "That the water supplied to London, the healthiest city
the world, is as excellent is quality, as it is liberal in quantity." An opinion contrary
this statement, generally prevails. Indeed, Dr. Franklin in his annual report does the
speak so favourably of the quality of the water taken from the Thames and with mu???
reason may its purity be doubted, when we learn that before it reaches the place when
it is drawn, the sewage from over half a million of people is mixed with it. He states th???
the Thames water in the months of January, April and December as delivered for ???
sumption, was such a condition as to have been quite unfit for drinking purposes.