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Victorian London, The Thames, and the Great Stink

Victorian London, The Thames, and the Great Stink. Ethan Callahan Austin Herriott Eddy Pappalardo. Victorian London. Population. Surged from 1 million to over 6 million Brought good and bad Good Industrial Revolution Established Middle Class Higher population and migration Bad

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Victorian London, The Thames, and the Great Stink

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  1. Victorian London, The Thames, and the Great Stink Ethan Callahan Austin Herriott Eddy Pappalardo

  2. Victorian London

  3. Population • Surged from 1 million to over 6 million • Brought good and bad • Good • Industrial Revolution • Established Middle Class • Higher population and migration • Bad • Increase in poor • Increase in gap between rich and poor • Decrease in available housing • Poor public hygiene/sanitation • Disease, higher death rates • Bad reasons for migration

  4. Immigration • Immigrants from all over Europe and even some from Asia and Africa • Ireland • Famine • Jews • Persecution, Famine, and War • France • Italy • Germany • Spain • Refugees • China • India • Africa • Sailors

  5. 19th Century London • Cheapside • Early “shopping mall” • Soho • Entertainment-music halls, small theatres, prostitution • Dr. John Snow • Whitechapel • Prostitution • Whitechapel Murders-Jack the Ripper • Westminster Abbey • Abbey finished being built in the 19th century, Devil’s Acre • Houses of Parliament • Greatest Work of Victorian Gothic Architecture • Crystal Palace • Great Exhibition, Hyde Park • Big Ben • Built as Part of new Palace of Westminster when old palace was destroyed in fire

  6. Dickens View of London • Great city, however, filthy • Those who have never seen London think it is amazing • Those who live in it realize it is a filthy and nasty city • Terrible Sanitation • The rich and poor intermingle, the elite and scum of society • Water is terrible and cause of disease

  7. London Sanitation • Increased population and overcrowding • Poor sewage system • Leaky pipes and gutters filled with sewage • Even fecal matter could be found in the streets • Diseases spread easily and could be fatal • Sewage gasses leak into houses causing problems

  8. Thames River • Poor sanitation and sewage runoff • Raw sewage runs into Thames River • Spreads sewage through the city • Creates serious health problems • City smells and looks disgusting

  9. London Fog • Industrial Revolution • Coal and other fossil fuels used as main fuel source • Burning causes severe pollution • Smoke, soot, and other particles combine with fog • Causes decreased visibility and health problems • Death and injury often occur

  10. The Great Stink

  11. How It Happened • Summer was unusually hot • New toilets had been installed • Cesspits overflowed into storm drains • Storm drains overflowed into streets • Streets overflowed into the Thames • Bacteria thrived • The smell progressively got worse

  12. Consequences • All work stopped at the House of Commons • Lime chloride • Considered relocation to Hampton Court • Law courts made plans of evacuation • Going to move to Oxford and St. Albans

  13. Resolutions • Fixed through heavy rain • Metropolitan Board of Works demanded a solution • Chief Engineer Joseph Bazalgette • London Sewage System • Dumped into the Thames • Marshy embankments natural filter

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