This is how it began (the cholera epidemic). So Sarah threw away her soiled diapers into a cesspool in her basement. In 1854, baby Lewis started vomiting and excreting around six in the morning. Their first child died after ten months, but they had another one.
In the 1840s, Thomas Lewis was a police officer living in Soho with his wife Sarah and their child. By 1850s Soho was also densely populated with narrow streets like most other parts of London which was why many rich people blamed the poor for catching diseases when really it was their own fault due to living conditions. Soon after that, Soho became one of the hippest places in London and attracted artists and intellectuals who made it even more popular than before. In Soho Field for example, there had once been a mass burial of plague victims however, it wasn’t until years later that people began to live there again.
However, they were completely wrong about this because the poor lived in cramped quarters where diseases spread more rapidly. Meanwhile, Karl Marx was living there and his impressions of decay led him to create Communism.Īt one point, people in London believed that bad smells and dead bodies spread disease. The dead bodies of the poor were often buried in mass graves-a sight that inspired Charles Dickens to write about how civilization and barbarism walk together. This invention led to an increase in water usage which caused sewers to overflow and created filthier conditions than ever before.Īs the city of London grew, it experienced a surge in corpses. The middle class was made up of those who invented toilets (i.e., water closets). As time passed, these people began making more money because they had to travel farther to dispose of the waste.
They earned a good wage thanks to their physically demanding work. The lower class consisted of those who collected excrement from the city and disposed of it. However, they also threatened to destroy London’s population of humans by spreading cholera through water and food supplies during a heat wave in 1854.Īs is the case with all societies, there were classes in London as well. Also, in nature, microbes recycle waste so that life can continue. In the Middle Ages, farmers recycled waste to help their soil grow better plants and food. The city was filled with people who sorted through trash at night because it was profitable to do so they had become an important part of society for disposing garbage. In short, the scavengers lived in a world of excrement and death. Pure finders made their living collecting dog excrement while bone pickers picked meat off thrown away carcasses. There were three kinds of scavengers: pure-finders, toshers and bone-pickers. In the 19th century, there were a lot of poor people in London who survived by going through trash. 1-Page Summary of The Ghost Map Overall Summary Chapter 1
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