Download or read book The Epidemic Streets written by Anne Hardy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides a study of death and disease in the 19th century, and how Victorian society coped with infectious disease. It tells how a century ago whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever and many other diseases ravaged millions of families and made life desperately uncertain.