On Mar 5, 7:52*pm, "Bill Grey" wrote:
"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message

ll.co.uk...

On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 17:33:19 -0000, Bill Grey wrote:

It's a pity we can't ask the folk who lived in Ystalyfera in the Swansea
Valley circa 1866 ...

Or the around Broad Street, Soho, London in 1854. People of
Ystalyfera had obviously not done a proper risk assesment based on
the discoveries of John Snow 12 years previously.

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Cheers
Dave.

News an information was not so readily available in those days. The
circumstances that prevailed in the mid nineteenth century in Ystalyfera
were not conducive to wholesale revamping of the sewerage system or other
causes of poultion. *Your trivial comment on risk assessment smacks of
ignorance and disrespect to a tragic community.

Bill

More likely, whoever owned the housing didn't give a toss/didn't
believe it/won-appen-ter-me-guv..