• Bad smell:

  • Human waste

  • Industrial effluent

  
  

• sewage of London

• Fleet river

• Wallbrook river

John Bazalgette:

• his plans were completed.

• Tested the degrees of opacity

  • near the bridges the feculence so big they were visible at the surface

  • Smell was bed through the whole river

• Wrote to the Times.

The MCS became MBW (Metropolitan board of workers):

• control over the sewers.

• Government poured in the river:

  • Chalk limes

  • Chloride of lime

  • Carbolic acid

• Published a book: On the mode of communication of chorea --> Theory of water-borne transmission.

• Removed handle to the local water pump --> less dead.

• Superseded 7 of 8 authorities that managed London's sewers since Henry VIII

• First time unitary had power over capital sanitation section.

• Chadwick and John Snow --> flushed sewers more --> more Sewage in the Thames.

• consultant engineer

• Overwork --> impact on his health.

• First time, he worked again.

• Developed a systematic plan for the city sewers.

Moreover, many goods were transported to the Port of London. Some notable advantages were:

• Cost effective commuter travel

• Bypassing street congestion

• Improved import & export of goods