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A LARGE number of springs in London have been closed (in recent years) in order to protect the public from the risks of water-borne maladies. Some, like the famous Broad Street Pump, at the time of the cholera epidemic in 1854, have been proved to be the active distributors of disease. But it may be questioned whether in the wholesale closing of the London wells the innocent have not suffered with the guilty. It is sometimes forgotten that the change in water-supply generally signifies the substitution of mixed waters for the water of a single source. It is at least open to question whether, from the point of view of health, fresh drinking water from a single source is not to be preferred to mixed waters of whatever purity.
Old London's Spas, Baths, and Wells.
By Dr. S. Sunderland. Pp. xii + 169. (London: John Bale, Sons, and Danielsson, Ltd., 1915.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
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Old London's Spas, Baths, and Wells . Nature 97, 53–54 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097053a0
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