Disease Infested Victorian Slums - Outbreak in 19th Century London

Dirt, disease and death were everywhere in London's foul and stinking slums in the 19th Century and yet also close to Victorian London's government, abbey, huge wealth, grand terraces and palace-like houses. Find out how cholera and disease took hold of Victorian London's West End slums in Westminster at a time when bad air was feared more than bad water in this account by a contemporary journalist.

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CC BY - Back-to-back cottages with a cesspool standing between them, in an unidentified part of Preston, London Board of Health hunting after cases, A quack doctor selling remedies from his caravan, A young Viennese woman aged 23 depicted before and after, Dwellings of the poor in Bethnal Green water supply, Illustration depicting cramped and squalid conditions, John Snow, Lodging house in Field Lane, Sanitary law and practice a handbook by Wellcome Collection; Old Pye Street by Matt Brown
CC BY-SA - inner courtyard by Ed Schpul; Old Street Sign Great Smith Street by Jim Osley via geograph.co.uk; Part of the former public baths, 34 Great Smith Street, Westminster, London SW1 by Kevin Gordon via geograph.org.uk; Piccadilly Circus London England by Snapshots of the Past

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