At people going about a pandemic disease that they find personally inconvenient 'got to live with it'.

As if 'living with it' is just about shrugging your shoulders and letting the dice fall as they may.

Am surprised at no reports of rumbling in the cemeteries where Victorian sanitarians are buried.

Because when you are dealing with a disease like ( Read more... )

I sighed when I came across this, because it is is yet another iteration of a previously-observed phenomenon: Donors Worry About Fate of Artifacts as Museum on Irish Famine Closes: Quinnipiac University, which had opened Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum in 2012, said that it could no longer afford to operate it. Enthusiastic person sets up a ( Read more... )

Sharks!! in the Thames!!! with venomous spines!!!!: [S]harks including tope, starry smooth-hound and spurdog -- a slender fish measuring some 23 inches and covered in venomous spines -- have been found. Spurdogs can be found in deep water, and the spines in front of the shark's two dorsal fins secrete a venom that can cause pain and swelling in ( Read more... )

We may note, dr rdrz, that there are no actual statues to either John Snow or Joseph Bazalgette - their (visible) monuments are modest.
I remarked, earlier this year, that Our Leaders were pretty much putting the handle back on the Broad Street Pump, and at this present moment, I would not be surprised if they were entering into a remunerative deal ( Read more... )

The smart toilet era is here! Are you ready to share your analprint with big tech?
Does point out, right at the end, that 3.6 billion people - nearly half the world’s population - have no access to safe sanitation, let alone a loo that can track sleep quality and fibre intake.
though even in this green and ?pleasant? land, Government failing to ( Read more... )

THE HANDLE HAS BEEN RESTORED TO THE PUMP.
You are now at liberty to use your discretion about drawing water from it.
Whether you boil the water prior to use is entirely a matter of personal responsibility.
The usual precautions against miasmas remain in place.
BY ORDER, THE AUTHORITIES.

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Goodness knows one gets some very weird people rather tangentially connected to the world of academe following one via academia.edu, but today there was somebody in W Africa, who appears to be based at a real institution, but also to be touting a SECRET OCCULT ORGANISATION FOR WEALTH AND POWER WITHOUT NO HUMAN KILLINGS. Hmmmm.
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In more srs ( Read more... )

Alas that it is a problem beyond removing a pump handle (all dr rdrz know about John Snow and the Broad St pump and cholera, right?) but we feel dear old Flo would be smiling somewhat grimly in gratification about the 'soap and water' recommendations.
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Apparently libraries staying open while everything around them closes is a thing? In the days ( Read more... )

Okay, I would not be surprised to hear that Highgate, Brompton, etc cemeteries were giving up their sheeted dead and that lionesses were leaping out of their enclosures in Regent's Park Zoo in order to whelp in the streets -
If I looked up I might see a falcon turning and turning in the widening gyre.
Somewhere, no doubt, a rough beast is lurching ( Read more... )

That Dr James Miranda Barry would have wished to be remembered for outstanding achievement in the fields of medicine, surgery, and sanitary and hygienic reform.
That if, by some miracle, Barry were to be transported into the present day, I think the things that would be arousing the famed incandescent fury would be things like anti-vaxxers ('they' ( Read more... )