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Cleansing the City : Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (238 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Sanitary City -- 1: The London Sewer -- 2: "Thames Fever" -- 3: A More Expansive Reach -- 4: No Space for the Poor -- 5: Intransigence and Limited Mobility -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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