Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Pollution, Public Health, Language

    Noting Henry Letheby's support for the high quality of London water, christens Letheby 'a sort of Champion of the Thames' and a 'Thamesby'. Similarly, considering that the Thames is enriched by tributaries from Kingston-on-Thames, postulates that the rivers Thames and Lethe are so much alike that 'Thamesby and Letheby are really equivalent names'.