lead-pipes

Updated: May 5, 2025

But the poorer people are and therefore usually, alas! the more ignorant the less water they get; and the less they care to have water; and the less they are inclined to pay for it; and the more, I am sorry to say, they waste what little they do get; and I am still more sorry to say, spoil, and even steal and sell in London at least the stop-cocks and lead-pipes which bring the water into their houses.

Charles Kingsley - Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc