This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...is my court t These cellars piled With filth of many a year; These rooms with rotting damps defiled; These alleys where the sun ne'er smiled, Darkling and drear! These streets along the river's bank, Below the rise of tide; These hovels, set in stifling rank, Sapp'd by the earth-damps green and dank; These cesspools ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...is my court t These cellars piled With filth of many a year; These rooms with rotting damps defiled; These alleys where the sun ne'er smiled, Darkling and drear! These streets along the river's bank, Below the rise of tide; These hovels, set in stifling rank, Sapp'd by the earth-damps green and dank; These cesspools wide. These yards, whose heaps of dust and bone Breathe poison all around; These sties, whose swinish tenants, grown Half human, with their masters own A common ground. What are my perfumes? Stink and stench From slaughter-house and sewer; The oozing gas from open'd trench, The effluvia of the pools that drench Courtyards impure." Two points have been often dwelt upon by the Registrar-General in his reports, as increasing the risk of cholera, namely, lowness of level and impure water. Thus, after pointing out in one of his reports, that the district in which the poorer classes abound suffered generally most from the epidemic, he said: "From an attentive consideration of all the facts, the rich, living on low ground, in houses supplied with impure water, are in great danger during a cholera epidemic; while the industrious, hardworking population, living on simple food, in clean houses not much crowded, supplied with pure water, on high ground, or on well-drained ground that has not been a marsh, have little to fear from cholera in England." Contrasting some of the districts, the Registrar has said: "Rotherhithe and Chelsea differ little in rental; but the Chelsea district, supplied by the Chelsea Water Company, is on an elevation of 12 feet, and lost 47 inhabitants in 10,000 by cholera; while Rotherhithe, on lower ground (0 feet), supplied with impure water, lost 176 by cholera in 10,000 inhabitants. In Hackney, again, the peo...
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Good. Tired dust jacket, with small tears, wear, marks, scratches and fading. Some bumps/wear at edges/corners of hard board. Fading/marks at parts of text blocks. Text very good/clean. 130 p. Victorian Library . Illustrations.
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