Dirty old London
Subtitle: the Victorian fight against filth
By: Lee Jackson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780300192056
Subjects: Umweltverschmutzung; Sanitation; Verschmutzung; Environmental Pollution; Social conditions; Hygiene; History, 19th Century; Social Conditions; MEDICAL / Public Health; History
Description: "In Victorian London, filth was everywhere : horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with 'night soil', graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them." --from inside jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-283) and index.
Table of contents: title: The golden dustman; title: Inglorious mud; title: Night soil; title: Removable causes; title: Vile bodies; title: The great unwashed; title: The public convenience; title: Wretched houses; title: The veil of soot.