COVE

The Victorian Era was known for many diseases spreading. Some of the most known diseases that spread throughout the Victorian Era were Tuberculosis, Smallpox, Measles,etc. This was mainly because of the unsanitary conditions that they were forced to live in. In the Victorian Era they did not have toilets so they has to use cesspools. Another reason was the horses that left their feces in the road. Cesspools beame a major problem because it was illegal for villagers to dump their waste in the daytime but some people still dumped it on the sidewalks. Joseph Bazalgette was a English civil engineer who created a sewage system to help but on hot days the smell rose to the air. With all of the waste in the ground it seeped through water systems and thousands of people were infected with Cholera. The government could have done things to help out the people that had to go through this tortue but they decided to come up with simple hacks that would eventually lead to them getting sick and them finally deciding that this was a problem that had to be fixed.