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In 1866, during a cholera pandemic outbreak, where 5,973 Londoners perished, the East London Water
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166:(pre 1767) and West Ham (1743). Although the legislation that established the London water companies intended that they would compete for customers, in 1815 the East London company drew up a legal agreement with the
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amalgamated the eight private water companies into the
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In 1841 the company supplied 36,916 houses. By 1903 this figure had risen to 223,891 houses, with the area of supply having a population of 1,482,156.
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to avoid a 2 miles (3.2 km) meander of the natural river course; clean water was now abstracted from the natural channel to a new
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as a result of pollution caused by population growth. In 1770, the
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Former buildings and structures in the London
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The water supplied by the company was taken from the Lea, with
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in 1806, and in 1845 the limits of supply were described as
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In 1829, the source of water was moved further up river to
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232:References
175:Lea Bridge
164:Lea Bridge
152:waterworks
128:Shoreditch
64:1904-06-24
705:0°01′10″W
418:John Snow
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197:in 1891.
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136:river Lea
113:in 1904.
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144:West Ham
27:Industry
351:History
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