19 MAY 1933, Page 17

WATERLESS VILLAGES

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]

SIR,—I am glad to find attention drawn in your columns this week to the subject of village water supplies. Con- sidering what impure water may mean, particularly to children, the conditions existing in many of our villages are a sheer scandal. I have in mind one district within thirty miles of London where numbers of cottagers have to fetch all their water from a running spring. There is company water close at hand--it -is costly and the cottages have never been connected.—I-am; Sir,- &c., •

Dorking, May 13th. FOxTON BROADHOLT.