Edwin Chadwick

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Chronicled events

1. 1842·​Disease Is in the Air
   #5768

   Diseases like cholera and fevers come from miasma: bad air given off by rotting filth, sewage, and swamps. Clean away the filth and its smell, and the disease goes with it.