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Source: Townsville Daily Bulletin

URL: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/62894778

Date: 05/06/1947

Event: Heat wave in London: "Many areas were without water"

Credit: Townsville Daily Bulletin, Trove (National Library of Australia)

TOWNSVILLE DAILY BULLETIN - JUN 05, 1947

LONDON. June 4 - The top temperature recorded today was 97 degrees in the shade, at Bury Saint Edmunds.

During the heat wave, London water consumption yesterday rose by 22,000,000 gallons to a new record of 428,000,000 gallons. Many areas were without water. Mobile water tanks toured Essex, where 100,000 householders were without water.