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The Great Stink of 1858 (London)

From the YouTube channel "Today I Found Out"https://youtu.be/uXm0IGQ5PZY.

If you want to go into even more uhm...depth, I recommend the "The Ghost Map of London" by Steven Johnson. It's about the cholera outbreak during the Victorian period and the long overdue discovery of the microbiological source of disease. I listened to it as an audio book in the car on a road trip. It would be best perhaps to not listen to it or read it while eating anything.
 
The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis is an excellent book on the subject. The engineering involved in the sewer system is magnificent.
 

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