The Sanitary Evolution of London
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The text says that in 1853 suspicion passed into certainty and the disease assumed the form of an epidemic, with as many as 102 deaths from it occurring in the first week in November. The text says that after the epidemic died down, the disease in the following year again appeared in more severe epidemic form over the whole of the metropolis, with 459 deaths from it on one day, September 4th. The plan adopted, the text says, was to intercept all the sewage flowing into the Thames within the area of the metropolis, and to convey it by sewers to a distance.
A quoted report says that in a very large number of houses the walls of the staircases, passages, and rooms are black with filth and the ceilings are rotten and bulging. The text says all this was nearly thirty years after Bethnal Green had been endowed with a local sanitary authority. The text says that the new body failed to prove equal to the task imposed upon it, which was due as well to the constituent members thereof as to the imperfections of the machinery devised by the Act.
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- Henry Lorenzo Jephson
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- 325
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- English
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- European History
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