Disease Infested Victorian Slums - Outbreak in 19th Century London

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Dirt, disease and death were everywhere in London's foul and stinking slums in the 19th Century and yet also close to Victorian London's government, abbey, huge wealth, grand terraces and palace-like houses. Find out how cholera and disease took hold of Victorian London's West End slums in Westminster at a time when bad air was feared more than bad water in this account by a contemporary journalist.
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CC BY - Back-to-back cottages with a cesspool standing between them, in an unidentified part of Preston, London Board of Health hunting after cases, A quack doctor selling remedies from his caravan, A young Viennese woman aged 23 depicted before and after, Dwellings of the poor in Bethnal Green water supply, Illustration depicting cramped and squalid conditions, John Snow, Lodging house in Field Lane, Sanitary law and practice a handbook by Wellcome Collection; Old Pye Street by Matt Brown
CC BY-SA - inner courtyard by Ed Schpul; Old Street Sign Great Smith Street by Jim Osley via geograph.co.uk; Part of the former public baths, 34 Great Smith Street, Westminster, London SW1 by Kevin Gordon via geograph.org.uk; Piccadilly Circus London England by Snapshots of the Past
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@FactFeast Год назад

Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this and want to support the channel you can do this by using the SUPER THANKS button above! ▶ Journey to St. Giles Slum (The Worst Rookery in Victorian London): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RqttrGiqcHk.html ▶ Slum Dwellers of Seven Dials (People of a Victorian London Rookery): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Sn168_xeaHc.html ▶ Survival in Victorian London's Brutal East End Slums: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kDsWyeGUyXA.html ▶ Victorian Underworld (Living Nightmare of 19th Century London's Slums): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-j9KMCDwo51E.html ▶ Whitechapel (Victorian London's District of Wickedness): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-STKn9O7Ulv0.html ▶ Horrific Homes in Victorian East End London (Squalor in Star Street): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6rF_TI0-aD8.html ▶ The Hell of Life in Victorian Slums (19th Century London's Rookeries): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kbgAscHeRcE.html ▶ Victorian London's Most Dangerous Slum (Fenian Barracks): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RYQN7vm3bj4.html ▶ Victorian London's Brutal East End Slum - Filthy Old Nichol Street (Bethnal Green/Shoreditch): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-e7b6fAdT_j4.html

@patkeeler6645 Год назад

Men of science❤

@Johnnycdrums Год назад

Sadly, the British Empire never used their massive wealth to help their citizens, or should I say, "Subjects."

@stuartgmk Год назад

👍

@whitetroutchannel Год назад

which empire ever really did?

@117Pinkyflower Год назад

Or does?

@ontheisland11 Год назад

What did the Romans ever do for us?@@whitetroutchannel

@Ann65. Год назад

@Johnny You're absolutely right. Also, we have a family named Windsor (Saxe-Coburg Gotha) who will remain as monarchs for as long as their line continues ad-nauseum. A bit like a Dictaorship. As per the president of North Korea and his Fsmily

@AmandaWRU Год назад

I was brought up on the corner of old pye st and great Peter st in the tenements, we had to go to the public baths in st Ann's St to have a wash, it was still pretty grim there in the 50s and 60s

@elizabthharris6741 10 месяцев назад

Wow! I didn't know it was still bad. I guess it makes sense tho.

@theoriginalbluey Год назад

I remember as a child, on a trip to London with my mum we walked along the Thames and she told me that in Victorian times, orphan children my age lived along there on the beaches. I wasn't sure if she was accurate, but it fascinated me.

@capt.bart.roberts4975 Год назад

Tufton Street is now occupied by a different sort of cut purse.

@patkeeler6645 Год назад

Purse

@poutinedream5066 Год назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 ... wait, i don't get it 🤐

@garyhyndman1105 Год назад

You're not wrong there.

@angelafenton1908 Год назад

Yep

@kathyinwonderlandl.a.8934 Год назад

@clarry1324Thankyou!

@papertape7911 Год назад

The irony that all the while the British were busy calling other people barbaric, meanwhile they were literally bathing in their own sewage.

@cocochocookiedough Год назад

❤❤❤

@cocochocookiedough Год назад

@clarry1324What is there to understand?

@ellenlaurence6559 Год назад

❤️ love your voice!

@FactFeast Год назад

I’m happy you enjoy listening!

@mochans Год назад

Thank you!!!

@FactFeast Год назад

You're welcome! I hope it was interesting.

@juliebarks3195 Год назад

I stayed in a holiday camp in Wales like that.

@stuartgmk Год назад

.........................👀

@garyhyndman1105 Год назад

The Conservatives would like to see the return of this kind of want.

@Wales-forever 11 месяцев назад

My thoughts during the thatcher years and not much changed with the Tories

@caroliner2029 8 месяцев назад

What a thoroughly engrossing presentation, thank you. The nursery was heart melting in every way, and the vivid descriptions of the dirt caked little urchins were given with pathos and concern.... anyone would want to scoop them up and take care of them all.

@FactFeast 8 месяцев назад

Glad you found this worthwhile and thank you for taking the time to comment.

@genmanion2389 Год назад

i would hightail it back to where i came from and take my chances in the fresh air.

@paulguise698 Год назад

Was Cholera just a disease in London or was it nationwide? very good vlog, I cant wait for the next one, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumberland, England

@elizabthharris6741 10 месяцев назад

It was world wide. Still is.

@toniremer1594 Год назад

Maybe those in power, including those who are rich beyond their means, SHOULD be subjected to live in squalid conditions for a year. During this time, they cannot order “fancy” meals, have their clothes dry cleaned, be allowed to call an Uber, or any of the amenities that they have been accustomed to, and let’s see how fast they clean up their districts, renovate boarded up and abandoned buildings, collect the garbage that’s spilled all over the place, open up free medical clinics, and get much tougher on all forms of crimes. These politicians reside in guarded and gated communities, and they honestly don’t care about those living in slum areas, living in areas that look like landfills ( smell like landfills also ), not having access to medical care, or knowing if they’re going going to survive the night due to violent crimes. I’m so sick of these politicians claiming that they care, promising to clean up their neighborhoods, promising to get tough on crimes, promising to bring jobs to their communities, and the list goes on and on; then, once they get into office, they do NOTHING that they promised their constituents. Yet, these same constituents continue to vote for the same political party that continues to screw them over. However, I’ve been seeing these constituents waking up, and jumping to the other political party. God help us all! May God show His Mercy on us!!

@marciaspiegel5280 Год назад

Welcome to Republican party politics. Same pattern.

@Infirito_Ekra Год назад

@@marciaspiegel5280 don't be a part of the problem, dude, it doesn't matter what party is in power, poors aren't invited regardless.

@coconutsmarties Год назад

@@Infirito_EkraRead OP's other posts on this channel. She was definitely referring to the 'dems' as the bad guys here. I must've missed that time when Trump improved the lives of the poorest of society..

@Marlaina Год назад

⁠@@coconutsmarties Evidence shows that dem run cities are by far more poor, crime ridden, and run by corrupt politicians. This was happening long before Trump came into power and is getting worse in recent time with the rich and middle classes fleeing the states altogether for Texas and Florida which are, oddly enough, republican run. With the dems so vocal about racial issues and fairness across the board it makes me wonder why their voters defend their politicians who cause problems for the minorities and poor of their jurisdictions. Hypocrisy as its best.

@elizabthharris6741 10 месяцев назад

I have said this for years. Let the rich and especially super generational rich spend 3 months on the streets. A year if they have taken advantage of others misfortune or the law, to keep that wealth. Open their eyes to what they are oblivious to

@Ann65. Год назад

Like you, I find the discrepancies between the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ quite appalling! Those poor children had little to no hope of escaping the putrid alleyways and sodden drunks bewailing their lot. Women could marry up and thereby rise above her probable sorry state. But she would need her wits, determination, thick skin and, importantly to retain her virginity!

@brianoneil9662 Год назад

Thanks!

@FactFeast Год назад

Thank you so much Brian. You are really kind to give a super thanks 😊

@LaHayeSaint 7 месяцев назад

Just like today, there must have been many MPs in Parliament just feathering their own nests. Anyone in Parliament for the common good must have been small in number. Was there a Minister of Works who had the power to condemn lodgings, quickly demolish the slums, and carry out new builds with a view to social housing, such that previous residents were given first choice of these new builds?

@69JONESYrugby Год назад

The "Germ Theory of Disease" was Poppycock.

@coconutsmarties Год назад

Nope, it was fun

@davidreay5911 Год назад

Why on earth did people have children when they had no chance to live a decent life?

@taraelizabethdensley9475 Год назад

No effective contraception

@elizabthharris6741 10 месяцев назад

No money to even buy what they did have, which was condoms and surgery wasn't really much of a thing. So hysterectomies or tubes tied or vasectomies were years down the line. There was nothing but abstinence and that wasn't likely as a married woman unless you wanted to end up in an asylum or dead or penniless on the streets with even less. At least with a husband you had a chance to survive, cause his rights gave you options

@melissapinol7279 10 месяцев назад

There was no available or affordable contraception. Sex was one of the only comforting and pleasant things that the desperately poor had available to them in their miserable lives.

@whitetroutchannel Год назад

The original dreaded big C, my town suffered really badly during the famine period with chlorea, it inspired the poem "the lament of the irish peasent", thank you again for another sunday night trip in the time machine and taking us straight back in time

@FactFeast Год назад

You’re welcome whitetroutchannel. Thank you for your comment!

@nopamineLevel100 Год назад

I can highly recommend reading or listening to 'People of the Abyss' by Jack London. It's fantastic.

@FactFeast Год назад

There are lots of his stories on my channel starting with this: A Tourist in East End Victorian London (The People of the Abyss) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3yrhhERC99w.html

@rachelbachel2 Год назад

Yay a new one!

@brianoneil9662 Год назад

Healthy poor people are seldom a priority for those with power and privilege. Splendidly done as always.

@marciaspiegel5280 Год назад

True since Rome was in power. Greed is a staple.

@elizabthharris6741 10 месяцев назад

Even today

@Khatoon170 Год назад

Last part of my research cause of cholera outbreak in London soho district because of contaminated water from broad street pump . There were 23 , 000 deaths for all of Great Britain in 1853- 1854. Soho London killed 127 people in three days and in 616 within month . Cholera called blue death as dehydration lacked body , blood would begin to thicken in patients,veins , starved of oxygen their skin would turn sickly shade of blue . Majority of London homes were built without flush toliet. It’s really misery in victorian . We too in Arabic countries especially gulf areas in 1930s Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain have small pox as pandemic many died or have scars on their faces lost their eyes from that infectious disease. Plague was global pandemic as I heard from my mother told me from her grandmother and numerous people died from that pandemic. Good luck to you your dearest ones .

@FactFeast Год назад

There is a replica water pump in London that commemorates the work John Snow did to combat cholera.

@LindaYariger 7 месяцев назад

Oh, wow! Tyvm! Really appreciate!

@UnIimited_Power Год назад

0:49 "Logins for travellers" wow they even had free Wifi in the 19th Century!

@coolstarb. 8 месяцев назад

We were never taught that

@shawnaellcey6970 Год назад

Another lovely read time capsule. Thank You! ❤😊

@FactFeast Год назад

Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed listening.

@mijiyoon5575 Год назад

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

@FactFeast Год назад

Thanks for watching Miji 😊

@janesykes4483 Год назад

Thank u❤

@FactFeast Год назад

You're welcome 😊 Thanks for the comment.

@tinygrim Год назад

Nice 👍. Thank you

@FactFeast Год назад

Glad you found it interesting 🙂

@jameswoolford2698 Год назад

I like doing an impression of this guys voice to myself when i'm bored. 😂

@coconutsmarties Год назад

And yet by doing so you continue... bringing the past alive

@Wormsfunkmonk Год назад

I heard 120,000 to 6,000,000 people died of cholera

@Mithras444 Год назад

Wow I had no idea it was like this in London! What surprises me is the description of the shoddy constuction.

@Mar4545 11 месяцев назад

Well London doesn't look any better this days ,,,,same goes for many countries

@deanmark11 Год назад

Thanks and keep up the good work and great Informative videos. Love learning about the olden days.

@FactFeast Год назад

I’m very grateful. Thank you so much for your support!

@Khatoon170 Год назад

How are you doing sir thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary . Unfortunately recently we have increasing of COVID-19 patients . Many people thought that pandemic is over but the truth this infectious disease is still . We must be carful don’t kiss or handshake with anyone. As always iam gathering main information about topics you mentioned briefly here it slums is housing often by ( unsafe , unhealthy homes , lack of windows, dirt floor , leaking walls and roofs ) . Imean still exists . Slums were overcrowded, limited or no access to basic services, water , toliets , electricity, transportation. Infested means fest to spread or swarm in or over in troublesome manner . Actually several isolated cases of cholera occurred on m London in 1852 . It was not however until 1853 that was officially announced by British authorities that cholera epidemic was claimed victims not only in London but also in other parts of country.

@FactFeast Год назад

Thank you for writing Khatoon. I’m glad you found it interesting.

@MegaLivingIt Год назад

You could almost imagine yourself in those times trying to survive as a single impoverished adult. But seeing illustrations with babes in arms, it's just such an inappropriate place to have kids.