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Original Text (Annotation: EPW023460 / 699143)
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This outline of a circular structure shows the former location of a reservoir of the Vauxhall and Southwark Water Company which supplied drinking water from the adjacent Thames until 1855 when the practice became illegal.
After this date water was drawn from a point above the tidal reach in order to reduce deaths from cholera and other diseases. '
