Abstract
In 1859, typhoid fever and cholera were killing thousands of Londoners each year. Yet the idea that Government should intervene was still seen by many as an unacceptable infringement of freedom. “We prefer to take our chance with cholera and the rest”, declared The Times, “rather than be bullied into health” (Robert Lacey, Great Tales of English History, 2006: 175).
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