Sherlock Holmes London

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Sherlock Holmes London

• Sherlock Holmes was a fictional character who was
  inspired by a real life doctor named Joseph Bell.
• This is what it was like to live in London during
  his time.

Born - 1854 Retired - 1903
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Victorian London

Here is a typical London street scene.
This is what the poorer sections of London looked
like.
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Conditions on the streets

• Sanitation and sewage removal began in the
  1840s. After that many parts of the city still
  had open sewers.
• Many rich people began to move to the suburbs,
  leaving the poor to live in dirty overcrowded
  apartments.
• Because of these dirty crowded conditions,
  diseases like cholera, tuberculosis, measles,
  smallpox, and influenza killed thousands each
  year.

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Medicine in Victorian London

• Doctors regularly applied leeches as part of
  medical treatment for various health problems.
• Opium and morphine were still widely used to
  treat patients.
• The College of Surgeons was formed and doctors
  began to use anesthetic and other modern methods
  in their practice.
• Phrenology, or the study of the shape of ones
  head, was popular with psychologists as a way to
  diagnose mental illness.

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Inventions of the Time

• The first subway is built in London in the later
  part of the 1800s.
• Edison invents the light bulb in late 1870s.
• Gasoline powered automobile production begins in
  Germany.
• Coca Cola, the Radio, Paper Clips, and the
  Machine Gun are all invented towards the end of
  the 1800s.

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Jack the Ripper

• During 1888 a brutal murder terrorized the
  Whitechaple neighborhoods of London.
• Victims were mostly prostitutes. 5 definite
  victims and 13 other possibly connected to the
  case.
• The killer supposedly wrote to the newspaper
  bragging of his crimes.
• Victim's throat was cut, after which the cadaver
  was subjected to abdominal and sometimes other
  mutilations.
• Some think that the Ripper was a doctor or
  butcher because of the surgical precision used to
  remove organs after the victim was killed.
• The case of Jack the Ripper was never solved.