London in the Time of Dickens
London Fog
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By the 1850s, Londoners used 13 million cubic feet of gas a day and 3 million tons of coal every year. The immense population also generated about 9.5 million cubic feet of refuse daily. Through Dickens’s rich descriptive language, you’ll walk the muck-laden streets and peer through the “pea soup” fogs that threatened the health and safety—both literal and spiritual—of London’s denizens.