Cholera! Public health in mid-19th century Britain

Cholera! Public health in mid-19th century Britain

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The 1848-1849 cholera epidemic in England and Wales was described
by a government report as if a ‘foreign army’ had ‘held possession
of the country, and slain 53,293 men, women and children’. In the
mid-19th century the country faced an epidemic of filth; poorly
drained, overcrowded towns created an environment ripe for diseases
like typhus […]

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