'Has DEATH in a rage, been invited by the Commissioners of Common Sewers to take up his abode in Lambeth?' A handbill protesting that Lambeth's inhabitants have paid exhorbitant rates, yet the streets are still without common sewers. Poor public sanitation was the major cause of cholera outbreaks in Lambeth, the 'Pest-House of the Metropolis'. Dated Lambeth August, 1832Photograph of original handbill.Ref: LBL/CE/PR/2/59
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