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Environmental and health standards rose throughout the Victorian era ; improvements in nutrition may also have played a role, although the importance of this is debated.

Sewage works were improved as was the quality of drinking water.

With a healthier environment, diseases were caught less easily and did not spread as much.

Technology was also improving because the population had more money to spend on medical technology ( for example, techniques to prevent death in childbirth so more women and children survived ), which also led to a greater number of cures for diseases.

However, a cholera epidemic took place in London in 1848 – 49 killing 14, 137, and subsequently in 1853 killing 10, 738.

This anomaly was attributed to the closure and replacement of cesspits by the modern London sewerage system.