Downstream

clean. In 1859 Greenwich’s
Medical Officer noted several
epidemic diseases, scarlatina,
measles and cholera – the
latter in part attributed to ‘the
emanations from the waters
of the Thames’ which had the
summer before reached ‘a
putrid condition’ with
hundreds if not thousands of
houses draining their sewage
into the water.
In 1871 one case of
indecent bathing did go to