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  1. Cleansing the city
    sanitary geographies in Victorian London
    Published: c2008
    Publisher:  Ohio University Press, Athens

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780821417706; 0821417703; 9780821417713; 0821417711
    RVK Categories: HL 1101
    Subjects: Geschichte; Hygiene; Public health; Urban health; Abfallbeseitigung; Städtehygiene; Englisch; Kanalisation; London <Motiv>; Roman
    Other subjects: Dickens, Charles (1812-1870): Our mutual friend; Gissing, George (1857-1903): Nether world
    Scope: x, 225 p.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-215) and index

    The London sewer: purification and the experience of urban disorder -- "Thames fever": the contest for the river in the metropolitan imagination -- A more expansive reach: the geography of the Thames in Our mutual friend -- No space for the poor: disillusionment with reform in the 1880s -- Intransigence and limited mobility: competing geographies in the Nether world