The Sewer King
Description
In the hot summer of 1858, a window was opened in the Houses of Parliament—and Britain’s great government suddenly ground to a halt. Disraeli and other leading MPs fled from their chambers, overwhelmed by the fearsome stench of decaying sewage. Fleeing "The Great Stink" for the country, MPs realized that they had to deal with the horrors and filth of London’s sanitation that had been literally building up on their doorstep for centuries. This is the story of how the problem began and killed thousands in a series of epidemics.
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49 min 5 sec
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