Downstream

it is almost entirely sea-water,
clear and green, as at
Ramsgate or Margate. But
this statement we are inclined
to question.’
The idea with the floating
bath was to give people a
clean, secure place to swim. It
was ‘perhaps the most
rational means yet decided
for diminishing the number of
deaths from drowning while
bathing in the river, which
invariably accompany a hot