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"The coal industry of central Appalachia has been on the decline for more than 30 years, with West Virginia and Kentucky losing more than 38,000 coal jobs in that time. As coal companies pulled out, they took with them the dollars that small towns…

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…

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…

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…

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 Thames was not the only river that was affected by pollution, and since smaller towns and rivers were not as carefully scrutinized, poor water quality could go unaddressed for a much longer time than would be tolerated in a larger city. Anthony…

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…