Cholera Transforms London and Paris
A satirical cartoon showing the River Thames and its offspring cholera, scrofula and diphtheria, circa 1850s.
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... In the interim, raw sewage continued to overflow into the River Thames, and in the summer of 1858 it caused the “Great Stink,” an odor so repugnant it forced the closure of the Houses of Parliament and the construction of a modern sewer system that transported the city’s waste far enough away from London that the river’s tides took it out to sea. In addition, the muddy shorelines of the Thames were narrowed and replaced with embankments with riverside roads and gardens. ...
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