A Dreadful Scourge: Cholera in early nineteenthcentury ...
· Footnote 105 Yet the early years of cholera have received surprisingly little attention, despite its coincidence with the formation of a Lottery Committee which aimed to improve the urban environment. The epidemics of 1817–21 were important because they marked the first phase in the mutual shaping of a city and a disease. Proponents of urban reform—or merely those who wished to .
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