The water supply of Kingston upon Hull from 1292 to 1954, and the future sources of supply.

Abstract

THE improved standard in the purity of public water supply, coupled with more 1 adequate resources, has contributed in no small way to the elimination of disease and the prospect of the longer life of to-day compared with 100 years ago. Looking back over the years it does not seem so long ago that a few buckets of water per day per household were all that were considered essential, but improved sanitation and hygienic conditions and the many personal water-using appliances have changed that aspect to such an extent that to-day water supply has become an increasingly essential factor in our ways of life and exerts a large influence upon industry and population trends. The history of the Hull undertaking, probably unique in its record and detail, although in this paper considerably condensed, will it is hoped be of general interest, showing as it does the importance of water supply in the growth of an industrial city, the foresight of the past and the effect of the later policy which failed to allow for the