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The Great Filth: The War Against Disease in Victorian England [Hardcover]

Stephen Halliday (Author)

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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd; 1st Edition edition (1 Nov 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0750943785
ISBN-13: 978-0750943789
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 2.8 cm
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"A wealth of engaging detail." --"Guardian" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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'Despite its wealth and social prominence the family found that it was unable to isolate itself from the stench, pollution and health hazards of the day...Probably as a consequence of the poor drainage system, the father contracted one of the most lethal and dreaded of what the Victorians called 'filth diseases' - 'bowel fever' or typhoid ...The mother had had typhoid herself when she was sixteen and quite understandably she dreaded the disease, which was a major killer...This family, with its troubles, tragedies, and near-tragedies from bad sewers and filth diseases, forced to live amidst stink and water and air pollution, was the Royal Family, of Victoria, Albert and their children.'

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