ABSTRACT
Along with the battle for space in London was the emergence of science as a means of understanding public health. Victorians such as William Whewell, John Stewart Mill and Charles Darwin contributed to the development of knowledge as a science and as a means of understanding the physical universe. The gradual development of science from avocation to profession occurred during the late Victorian period, leaving the early scientists to develop their own methods and theories while knowledge was still incomplete and fluid. Smith-field became entangled in the shifting theories about sanitation and disease.
