Disease Infested Victorian Slums - Outbreak in 19th Century London

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[@patkeeler6645]

Men of science❤

[@whitetroutchannel]

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

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

[@Johnnycdrums]

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

[@stuartgmk]

👍

[@whitetroutchannel]

which empire ever really did?

[@117Pinkyflower]

Or does?

[@ontheisland11]

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

[@Ann65.]

@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]

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]

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

[@mochans]

Thank you!!!

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You're welcome! I hope it was interesting.

[@ellenlaurence6559]

❤️ love your voice!

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I’m happy you enjoy listening!

[@brianoneil9662]

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

[@marciaspiegel5280]

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

[@elizabthharris6741]

Even today

[@SellieM6970]

Another lovely read time capsule. Thank You! ❤😊

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[@brianoneil9662]

Thanks!

[@FactFeast]

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

[@rachelbachel2]

Yay a new one!

[@theoriginalbluey]

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.

[@nopamineLevel100]

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

[@FactFeast]

There are lots of his stories on my channel starting with this: A Tourist in East End Victorian London (The People of the Abyss) kzbin.info/www/bejne/aarVmZt7h6hsb9k

[@UnIimited_Power]

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

[@coolstarb.]

We were never taught that

[@deanmark11]

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

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

[@papertape7911]

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

[@cocochocookiedough]

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[@cocochocookiedough]

​@clarry1324What is there to understand?

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

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

[@patkeeler6645]

Purse

[@poutinedream5066]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 ... wait, i don't get it 🤐

[@garyhyndman1105]

You're not wrong there.

[@angelafenton1908]

Yep

[@kathyinwonderlandl.a.8934]

@clarry1324Thankyou!

[@caroliner2029]

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]

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

[@jameswoolford2698]

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

[@coconutsmarties]

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

[@juliebarks3195]

I stayed in a holiday camp in Wales like that.

[@stuartgmk]

.........................👀

[@Khatoon170]

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]

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

[@LindaYariger]

Oh, wow! Tyvm! Really appreciate!

[@Mithras444]

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

[@Mar4545]

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

[@LaHayeSaint]

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?

[@tinygrim]

Nice 👍. Thank you

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Glad you found it interesting 🙂

[@janesykes4483]

Thank u❤

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[@garyhyndman1105]

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

[@Wales-forever]

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

[@genmanion2389]

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

[@Choppy698]

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]

It was world wide. Still is.

[@Delicious_J]

No all the majority industrial cities here in the northwest also suffered terribly with Cholera: Manchester, Liverpool etc Some of the grimmest records I've ever heard regarding cholera and of wider Victorian poverty were from Little Ireland in Manchester, which was in my opinion, a place all hope for better went to die The conditions in much of poor Manchester I've read about, honestly I reckon you were better off living starving and piss poor in a damp stone cottage in Ireland or Wales or Lancashire/Cumberland from whence the dwellers of these slums migrated from originally and continually

[@toniremer1594]

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]

Welcome to Republican party politics. Same pattern.

[@Infirito_Ekra]

@@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]

​@@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]

⁠@@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]

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

[@Contessa6363]

Alarming the profiling of poor people continues to this day! Nothing has changed much since the Victorian Times

[@Wormsfunkmonk]

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

[@Ann65.]

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!

[@mijiyoon5575]

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[@FactFeast]

Thanks for watching Miji 😊

[@MegaLivingIt]

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.

[@Khatoon170]

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]

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

[@kevinwalsh1619]

Drinking a weak beer or ale actually would have been better than drinking water during a cholera epidemic. The alcohol would have killed the bacteria. Drinking tea would also have been a solution, as boiling would have killed the bacteria.

[@69JONESYrugby]

The "Germ Theory of Disease" was Poppycock.

[@coconutsmarties]

Nope, it was fun

[@LeahDyson-kq4bd]

It was the best of times it was the worst of times lol

[@davidreay5911]

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

[@taraelizabethdensley9475]

No effective contraception

[@elizabthharris6741]

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]

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.