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In the sweltering summer of 1858 the stink of sewage from the polluted Thames was so offensive that it drove Members of Parliament from the chamber of the House of Commons. Sewage generated by a population of over two million Londoners was pouring into the river and was being carried to and fro by the tides. The Times called the crisis ""The Great Stink"". Parliament had to act - drastic measures were required to clean the Thames and to improve London's primitive system of sanitation. The great engineer entrusted by Parliament with this enormous task was Sir Joseph Bazalgette, and this bo

Bazalgette, Joseph William, Sir, 1819-1891. --- Engineers -- England -- Biography. --- Engineers -- Great Britain -- Biography. --- London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century. --- Sanitary engineering -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century. --- Sewerage -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century. --- Engineering --- Environmental Pollution --- Sanitation --- Waste Products --- Environmental Health --- Socioeconomic Factors --- History, Modern 1601 --- -Vibrio Infections --- Sociology --- Health Occupations --- History --- Public Health --- Technology, Industry, and Agriculture --- Communicable Disease Control --- Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections --- Population Characteristics --- Social Sciences --- Complex Mixtures --- Chemicals and Drugs --- Humanities --- Technology, Industry, Agriculture --- Environment and Public Health --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Public Health Practice --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Delivery of Health Care. --- Bacterial Infections --- Bacterial Infections and Mycoses --- Disease. --- History, 19th Century --- Sanitary Engineering --- Cholera --- Sewage --- Social Conditions --- Water Pollution