Dirty old London

By Lee Jackson

Subjects: Social history, Great britain, history, 19th century, MEDICAL / Public Health, Hygiene, Environmental Pollution, Socialhistoria, London (england), social conditions, Verschmutzung, Public Health, Sanitation, New York Times reviewed, Renhållning, Social conditions, Social Conditions, Historia, History, History, 19th Century, Umweltverschmutzung, MEDICAL, London (england), history

Description: "In Victorian London, filth was everywhere : horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with 'night soil', graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them." --from inside jacket flap.