Londoners Once Wondered If Feral Hogs Roamed Victorian-Era Sewers - Atlas Obscura
... The city’s nascent sewer system was overtaxed and constantly breached its limits. The network was overhauled and markedly expanded after the Great Stink of 1858, when deposits that the sewers had spit out into the River Thames baked in the summer heat, to the stomach-roiling chagrin of the entire city. ...
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