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Book about sanitation in 19th Century England?

 
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I thought I had an electronic book about this topic, but I can't find it in my files, so I'm hoping someone here can point me to it online.  Some things I remember about it are:
Discusses in depth the use of earth to filter urine, and earth closets;
Relates the account of a wealthy landowner insisting on enclosing the sewers, and the rise of cholera and dysentery in the region;
Tells about the well in a (his?) garden in town that the local authorities wanted him to fill in, but he tested the water and it was clean even though there was manure applied in the garden above.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?  
 
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This may help for a start
https://heritagecalling.com/2019/03/28/the-story-of-londons-sewer-system/#:~:text=Published%2031%20July%201858.,law%20on%202%20August%201858.
Or the Book, "The Great Stink of London 1859"
 
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FOUND IT!
Thanks to a bookmark I'd saved to http://journeytoforever.org/compost_humanure.html (I hope it's okay to put that here; I want to give credit where due), I found the link.
The book is "Essays on Rural Hygiene" by George Vivian Poore, M.D., F.R.C.P., published in 1893.  It's in pdf form but I might try to get a physical copy.
Thanks, John, for your recommendation.
 
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