ABSTRACT
A good sewer is far nobler and far holier than the most admired Madonna ever painted.
Discussions of the history of housing in Britain that claim a relevance to modern-day society conventionally begin around the time of the ascent of the young Queen Victoria to the throne in 1837. It was a time of rapid social change. One third of the way through the nineteenth century the British population was growing at a furious pace, and even more dramatically, moving from the status of a rural peasantry to an urban proletariat.
