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The household rubbish was thrown out into the narrow streets and the air was filled with black smoke from the factories chimneys.
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Dirty streets and cramped living was a perfect ground for deseases. More than 31,000 people died during an outbreak of Cholera in 1832 and lots more killed by typhus, smallpox, and dysentery.
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More than 20,000 people died in a particularly bad cholera outbreak in Paris.
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Edwin Chadwick, a lawyer who had designed the Poor Act, who came up with the idea of sewers and piped drinking water linked to people's living accommodation to cut the risk of infection from poor urban drainage.
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The tax on soap was taken off, meaning poor people could but it and become more hygienic by washing with it.
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Around 700 Londoners died from smog in one day.The burning of coal during the Industrial Revolution eventually contributed to globing warming, which environmentalists are still battling today.
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Between 1901 and 1970, deaths from diarrhoea and dysentery fell by around 12% in the Netherlands and England and Wales.
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Killed around 4,000 people, British lawmakers introduced legislation to move industries to more rural areas.
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British cities reported a 60 percent decrease in sulfur dioxide, a main ingredient for acid rain
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Adequate sanitation is still a major problem in the developing world.