Downstream

Thames had been ‘used from
all time’ for drinking water
and fishing, although when it
came to bathing it was
unclear ‘as to the degree of
right acquired by the public’.
While a gentleman wishing to
bathe who ‘chose the
particular spot where the
sewer drained into the river,
might find it exceedingly
inconvenient’, it was ‘not on
that account necessarily a
nuisance’. The conclusion of