London at the End of the Century:A Book of Gossip
a Beckett, Arthur William
1900
THE LONDONER'S SEARCH FOR HEALTH.
A LONDONER must preserve his health, and at the close of the century the doctors admit rivals to the continental watering-places. Nowadays, it is quite a common experience to hear Sir William This and Sir Robert That speaking with respect of Buxton, Tunbridge Wells, and Harrogate; and the autumn is the pleasantest time for a sojourn at these reviving watering-places. I have been to most of them and think I may, after mature consideration, declare my preference for the half-way town between London and Hastings. The site of is still fashionable, and in very much the same condition (if one is able to judge from contemporary prints and old guide-books) that it was just a century ago; and furthermore, the death-rate seems as low now as it was a hundred years since. | |
