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Miasma Poem

58 Fleeing Death: Victorian Paranoia Concerning Public Health First Section


Charles Dickens's own magazine, Household Words, also seems to have contributed to the spectacle of public health. His short poem focuses on the terror of miasma--the sickening cloud of influence hovering over and around London. Here the fog is responsible for physical deterioration and death (cholera).

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