Pollution of Water Supplies
88 Citations•1898•
W. Corfield
The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health
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Abstract
AT the commencement of the Summer vacation of 1895, I had occasion to visit I-Iawkhurst in Kent. I found there, as elsewhere, an opinion that for the four or five weeks of the hop-picking, the pickers have a delightful and most healthful holiday; but, watching with some care, I had iio little occasion to doubt this, and I decided to visit for fuller observation more central districts of the industry. I did not get far, for I found a perfection of wretchedness that held me close for such poor tinkering of relief as here and there I could effect; and so, anear and uncovered, I looked upon this so-called holiday, a gangrened wound at the vitals of