Every other factory town in England is a paradise in comparison to this hole. In Bradford, however, you think you have been lodged with the devil incarnate. If anyone wants to feel how a poor sinner is tormented in Purgatory, let him travel to Bradford. After the cholera epidemic of 1848, Titus Salt, at that time the mayor of Bradford, made a speech on the lessons of this tragedy. The cholera most forcibly teaches us our mutual connection.
Nothing shows more powerfully the duty of every man to look after the needs of others.
Cholera is God's voice to his people. Mr. Smith of Deanston, in a sanitary report made about 1837, describes Bradford as being the dirtiest town in England. Mills abound in great plenty, and their number is daily increasing, while the town itself extends in like proportion. Bradford is essentially a new town. The value of life is about 1 in 40.