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living conditions
chollera
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symptoms
profuse watery diarrhea, sometimes described as “rice-water stools”
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back to back houses
Back-to-backs are a form of terraced houses in the United Kingdom, built from the late 18th century through to the early 20th century in various guises. Many thousands of these dwellings were built during the Industrial Revolution for the rapidly increasing population of expanding factory towns.
bazagette
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette was a civil engineer in the 19th century who built London's first sewer network (still in use today), which helped to wipe out cholera in the capital. He also designed the Albert, Victoria and Chelsea embankments, which housed the sewers, in central London.
privy
A privy was the old name for the toilet, before the health acts, there was only 1 (normally) per court, possibly up to 100 would share it. when the lining which protected the clean water from the sewage broke, then it would cause cholera.
john snow
What did John Snow discover about cholera?
John Snow conducted pioneering investigations on cholera epidemics in England and particularly in London in 1854 in which he demonstrated that contaminated water was the key source of the epidemics.
charles booth
Pioneer in influencing government policies on the reduction of poverty that led to a range of social reforms in the early 1900s, such as the introduction of the Old Age pensions, and free school meals, and ultimately to the foundation of the welfare state.
cellar houses
These were a one underground-room, damp and poorly ventilated. The poorest people slept on piles of straw because they couldn't afford beds. Those urban dwellers who could only afford cellar dwelling lived in the most unfavorable environment ever.
edwin chadwick
Edwin Chadwick cholera
During the cholera epidemic of 1848-49, Chadwick ordered the replacement of the traditional brick sewers with his self-flushing, glazed pipes in hopes of conveying the sewage to farmers for use as manure.