Sanitation and Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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Sanitation and the Environment

• Where the Urine and Feces Went: Midden Privies before Urban Sewage Systems (Leeds & Glasgow)
• How Filthy Was London?
• Sanitation and Its absence
• The Victorian Environment (homepage)
• Kingsley, Millar, Chadwick on Poverty, Environment, and Epidemics
• Health and Hygiene
• From Inconvenience to Pollution — Redefining Sewage in the Victorian Age
• Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions
• Good Intentions, Unexpected Consequences: Thames Pollution of and The Great Stink of 1858

Related Occupations

• The Navvy and Sanitation Reform
• London Nightmen (cesspool-sewermen)

Technological Solutions

• The Metropolitan Main Drainage (Processing Sewage)
• Bathhouses and Washhouses

Cartoons about sanitation, drains, and toilets

• The Complete Builder, — (By One Who Has Been a Tenant) No. 4. The Cistern Lark
• The Complete Builder, — (By One Who Has Been a Tenant) No. 9 The Drains and Dusthole Witticism
• The Drain Demon. — A Hard case
• Punch on Thames Pollution (1859)
• Faraday Giving His Card to Father Thames

Diseases

• Sitemap
• Bacteriology & the germ theory of disease
• Cholera
• Influenza
• Puerperal Fever
• Tuberculosis (Consumption)
• Typhoid
• Typhus

Related material

• Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
• The Wells and Camden Wash Houses and Baths. 1888. Hampstead, London, NW3

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