Today I Found Out

The Great Stink of 1858 (2017x98)

Fecha de emisión: Abr 22, 2017

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Di’’s less okay though is when there’s nowhere for that poop to go- something people in Victorian era London found out first hand when all of the sewage they’d pumped into the Thames dried up and caused a stench that spurred London’s City Press to note- “Gentility of speech is at an end—it stinks, and whoso once inhales the stink can never forget it and can count himself lucky if he lives to remember it.” Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/07/great-stink-1858/ Sources: http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/parliamentary-archives/archives-highlights/archives-parliament-and-the-thames/ http://www.choleraandthethames.co.uk/cholera-in-london/the-great-stink/ http://www.choleraandthethames.co.uk/cholera-in-london/the-big-thames-clean-up/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/social_conditions/victorian_urban_planning_03.shtml http://publichealth.artsci.wustl.edu/great_stink http://www.thameswater.co.uk/about-us/850_2611.htm http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/thames1.html http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-london/sir-joseph-bazalgette-and-londons-sewers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow_%28physician%29 Image Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_silent_highwayman.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Thames#/media/File:FaradayFatherThames.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:London_Thames_copper_engraving_19th_century.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dirty_father_Thames.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hartmann_Maschinenhalle_1868_(01).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Punch-A_Court_for_King_Cholera.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Whitehead_(priest)#/media/File:Whitehead_henry1884.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Father_Thames_introduci