Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London

摘要

Two main periodizations are made here: first, the emergence of a powerful sanitary discourse in the 1840-50s centered around the management of effluvial waste products, and second, the strains on this model in the 1870-80s, during which the attention of public health reform shifted to issues of housing the permanent underclass. Allen also makes bafflingly sparse mention of cholera epidemics and research-a topic with immense direct implications for London's geographical imaginings, as shown by Pamela Gilbert.2 Nonetheless, in its intended goal Cleansing the City applies an exciting interpretation to a somewhat dated foundational scholarship on sewerage and housing reform.