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  • Collection: Victorian Public Health Places, Rivers, and Events

Attercliffe, as you can tell if you zoom in closely, is a tiny village right outside of Sheffield. In the intro chapter, I narrated the incident of an incompetent cleansing team coming to "help" the people of Attercliffe deal with their cholera…

The textile industry in this city won it its own catchphrase: "As polluted as Bradford Beck" (Wohl 236). The poisonous chemicals dumped into the canal made it so that the air above the water could actually be set on fire (236). Upstream of Bradford…

Cholera was one of the deadliest and most alarming of the epidemics during the Victorian era, and one of its most terrifying qualities was that for the first half of the nineteenth century, no one seemed to be able to figure out how it was spread. …

The typhus epidemic at Cowan Bridge Clergy Daughters' School is the incident on which the Lowood School epidemic in Jane Eyre is widely considered to be based. At Cowan Bridge, an evangelical school under the care of the reverend William Carus…

If Woodhouse Grove represented the best of the charity schools, Drouet's Orphanage represented the worst. Drouet's was the type of place where children who had no one to look after them eded up: a workhouse orphanage. Charles Dickens wrote critically…

In my introduction, I used Islington as an example of what the implementation of the health reforms looked like on a local level primarily because Gerry Kearns's case study of the North London parish was such a widely-cited and well-recognized…

A curious example of local resistance to health reforms took place in Leeds during a severe outbreak of cholera in 1849. The residents ignored "calls to clean up the area and instead went and stood outside the local alkali factory for days on end"…

Leicester was the site of particularly vehement resistance to the state mandated smallpox vaccination in 1853 (Wohl 133). The people of Leicester had already developed the "Leicester Method" of managing small pox, which involved disinfecting…

The Thames was supplied by several smaller rivers, such as the Cherwell and the Lea. This means every city on the river was affected by the pollution of the city that came before it on the stream, and every tributary carried the water of other…

One generally associates the Thames with London, however a look at the map reveals that the river covers a much longer distance. By the time the Thames had reached London, it had passed through several large cities, a few of which I have marked on…
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