London's Water-Supplies

AMONG the many problems aggravated by human aggravated by human gregariousness, none is more pressing than that of the supply of water. Life, whether bodily, domestic or industries, is impossible without a continuous and reliable source of water. Early settlers were, for the moel part, influenced in their choice of sites by the ready availability of springs, rivers or dipping-wells. But if the settlement flourished the local supplies soon became inadequate in volume and dangerous in quality. Cities became plague-stricken for reasons obvious enough to us, but mysterious and supernatural to their inhabitants.