Xand van Tulleken explores the onset of the Great Stink of 1858. In the process, he uncovers how poor sanitation led to cholera outbreaks, he considers Victorian knowledge of disease transmission ...

Although it was the largest city in the world at the time, Victorian London still had a medieval sanitation system. Xand van Tulleken explores the onset of the Great Stink of 1858. In the process ...

As a result of the Great Stink, the government invested in the construction of a new sewerage system for London. This was designed by Joseph Bazalgette. The new system was designed in 1858 and ...