A River Runs Putrid: A Summer of Filth, 1858
The city of London sought in the heat of summer, 1858. But it was not merely the sun that parched the metropolis. An even more unpleasant force infested its very heart: the River Thames. Years of industrial discharges had transformed London's lifeblood into a stench. The stench was oppressive, River Thames a miasma that clung to every cobblestone a