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<blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 3250052" data-attributes="member: 6957">Hmm, a few urban hazards of record that seem to have been missed - Food poisoning and diseases from bad drains. And my personal favorite - toxic dust. (Mud in the city streets was largely manure of one type or another. As carriages passed over it the muck would be ground fine. On a summer day it would dry up and, when disturbed by passing coaches, people, and horses, be thrown up to linger in the air and be taken in with each breath. Lovely stuff.)One thing that I found disturbing while writing a school report about Elizabethean London (many years agone now) was that people died there faster than they were born, the city grew because people migrated there, not because of birth rate.In any event, this PDF is one that I am purchasing. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The Auld Grump</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheAuldGrump, post: 3250052, member: 6957"] Hmm, a few urban hazards of record that seem to have been missed - Food poisoning and diseases from bad drains. And my personal favorite - toxic dust. (Mud in the city streets was largely manure of one type or another. As carriages passed over it the muck would be ground fine. On a summer day it would dry up and, when disturbed by passing coaches, people, and horses, be thrown up to linger in the air and be taken in with each breath. Lovely stuff.) One thing that I found disturbing while writing a school report about Elizabethean London (many years agone now) was that people died there faster than they were born, the city grew because people migrated there, not because of birth rate. In any event, this PDF is one that I am purchasing. :) The Auld Grump [/QUOTE]

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