The Metropolitan Sanitary Association Dinner, at Soyer's Sy

The first public festival held by the Metropolitan Sanitary Association in 1851. With thousands of deaths from diseases such as cholera and typhoid as a result of poor sanitation in the capital city throughout the 19th century, various reforming societies were set up to promote cleanliness and welfare. Charles Dickens was himself a keen advocate of improved sanitation and is recorded as proposing a toast to The Board of Health at this particular banquet

Advocate Banquet Cholera Cleanliness Deaths Dickens Diseases Improved Keen Promote Proposing Recorded Reforming Result Sanitary Sanitation Soyer Soyers Toast Typhoid

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