Ardy, Martha and I can share a community story about the subject of the book you just read. In early Huntsville, the water for the community was drawn from a big spring downtown. It was also the local exchange of produce and materials. The townspeople would hitch their horses up and horses would do what they needed to do, polluting the water supply. People would get sick.
Above the town was a plateau. A hotel was built there and the sick would go up on the hill and surprisingly get better. It was such a source of revival that it was named Monte Sano (loosely translated from Mountain of Health). It was not the fresh air but the lack of drinking contaminated water that brought about revived health.
Did the book talk about the use of the Thames as a giant flushing machine for the Tower of London? That I have also heard discussed and how disguisting that river was.
Kathy
