Waterless Homes Everyone who lives in a country village knows
that Lord Elmley's comments, in the House of Commons on Monday, on the badness of the average rural supply of water were none too severe. There are villages not forty miles from London with no public supply except an occasional well; and many cottagers have to take their water from ditches or ponds if they cannot fetch it from a well half a mile away. The wonder is that epidemics are not more frequent ; as it is, bad water accounts for much sickness, especially among the children, and the labourer's wife is hard put to it to keep her cottage and her family clean. The Minister of Health in his reply declared that little could be done for lack of money. But the sinking of a few more wells in each parish would appreciably ease the situation until larger 'schemes, such as the great municipalities have carried out, can be undertaken 'for 'the neglected countryside,
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