Birmingham, Corporation Street 1896
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Described in 1890 as a ‘handsome modern thoroughfare’, Corporation Street was the result of a massive redevelopment of 93 acres of slums. Councillor Ward said that the ‘rubbish and dilapidation of whole quarters have reminded me of Strasbourg which I saw soon after the bombardment’.The area was notorious, wells were contaminated with raw sewage, and the death rate was 3.2 per cent above the national average.
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