Cholera! Public health in mid-19th century Britain
- Author
- Christopher Day
- Published
- Tue 02 Feb 2021
- Episode Link
- https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/audio/cholera-in-mid-nineteenth-century-britain.mp3?pod=rss
The 1848-1849 cholera epidemic in England and Wales was described by a government report as if a ‘foreign army’ had ‘held possession of the country, and slain 53,293 men, women and children’. In the mid-19th century the country faced an epidemic of filth; poorly drained, overcrowded towns created an environment ripe for diseases like typhus […]
