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The Grimy 1800s
Chronicles of the filth, foulness, and public health disasters found by "inspectors of nuisances" in a newly industrialized world. In the nineteenth century, as towns grew, Britain became increasingly grimy. The causes of dirt and pollution were defined legally as "nuisances" and, in 1835, the new local authorities very rapidly appointed an army of "inspectors of nuisances." This book reveals the Victorian era from a very different point of view: it offers the inspectors' eyewitness accounts and details the workings of the Parliamentary Committees that were set up in an attempt to ease the struggle against filth. Inspectors battled untreated human excreta in rivers black as ink, as well as u...
