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THE note on the Thames flood of 1928 (NATURE, Jan. 4, p. 32) is of the very greatest topical interest, for not only have the very greatest topical interest, for not only have the recent December floods covered an unexpectedly large area, again submerging districts upon which council houses have been built, but they have also shown how river pollution must rapidly increase as fields get replaced by residential quarters with drainage systems far below the level of the river.
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GUNTHER, R. Thames Floods and Pollution. Nature 125, 49–50 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125049a0
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