The Great Filth by Stephen Halliday

Author:Stephen Halliday
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780752474649
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2011-12-16T00:00:00+00:00

FIVE

The Public Servants

The sewerage of the Metropolis, though it is a frequent subject of boast to those who have not examined its operations or effects, will be found to be a vast monument of defective administration, of lavish expenditure and extremely defective execution.

(Edwin Chadwick, on London’s sewers)

As the air of London is not supplied like water to its inhabitants by companies the air has had the worst of it. For air no scientific witnesses have been retained, no learned counsel has pleaded; so the atmosphere has been freely charged with the propagation of plagues of all kinds; while Father Thames and the water gods of London have been loudly proclaimed innocent.

(William Farr, writing on the 1866 Whitechapel cholera epidemic)

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