Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Medicine in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain.
An underground pit used for the disposal of human waste and sewage, which in 1854 cracked and leaked cholera-infected waste into the Broad Street water supply.
Cesspit appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Medicine in Britain and the Western Front, especially Medicine in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain and Case Studies: Vaccinations and Cholera.
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