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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: preserve the comfort, the decency, the health, the lives of men,
women, and children--most of those latter your own wives and your
own children?'"
"But what shall we do with the water?"
"Well, after all, that is a more practical matter than
speculations grounded on the supposition that all classes will do
their duty. But the first thing we will do will be to give to the
very poorest houses a constant supply, at high pressure; so that
everybody may take as much water as he likes, instead of having to
keep the water in little cisterns, where it gets foul and putrid
only too often."
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