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The commission surveyed London's antiquated sewerage system and set about ridding the capital of an estimated 200,000 cesspits, insisting that all cesspits should be closed and that house drains should connect to sewers and empty into the Thames (ultimately, a major contributing factor to "The Great Stink" of 1858).
The Great Stink was an event in Central London during July and August 1858 in which the hot weather exacerbated the smell of untreated human waste and industrial effluent that was present on the banks of the River Thames. The problem had been mounting for some years, with an ageing and inadequate sewer system that emptied directly into the Thames.
The Great Stink of 1858 stimulated the construction of a sewer system for London. In this caricature in The Times , Michael Faraday reports to Father Thames on the state of the river. As recently as the late 19th-century, sewerage systems in some parts of the rapidly industrializing United Kingdom were so inadequate that water-borne diseases ...
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The Great Stink of 1858 in London. The River Thames was so polluted with untreated human waste and industrial runoff that the city was overwhelmed by a horrific stench during a heatwave.
Hertfordshire and Essex Water Company Million gallons per year 1911–12 431.5 182.6 30.9 0.117 1912–13 426.2 187.9 26.3 0.065 1919–20 437.6 204.6 56.6
The Northern Outfall Sewer (NOS) is a major gravity sewer which runs from Wick Lane in Hackney to the Beckton Sewage Treatment Works in east London. Most of it was designed by Joseph Bazalgette , as a result of an outbreak of cholera in 1853 and the " Great Stink " of 1858.
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