Posts discuss historical and current suburb conditions (bad outdoor/indoor air quality, crowding, incomplete water/sewer infrastructure, cholera/typhoid/tuberculosis history, ticks/bedbugs, visible prostitution, teens working), opposition to adding another golf course as an uninspired amenity, and views of Surrey as “the suburb” with potential to become a local cultural hub.
Created 2 days ago • 14 documents • Range: 4/14 5:20pm – 4/14 9:48pmInteresting about coal. It's only the people well over 65 that will remember how bad things were in cities before the Clean Air Act 1956 started having an impact. I still remember visiting Manchester in the early 60s when I was about 5?, and there was a sick yellow smog everywhere. And the smell!
Bad air quality outdoors, worse indoors; crowding; sometimes not yet completed water/sewer/etc. infrastructure. Lots of cholera and typhoid until ~1900, lots of tuberculosis until after WW2, lots of ticks and bedbugs. Visible prostitution. Teens working for wages (rather than on the family farm).