"A regressive reality where wealth was built on the collapse of human hygiene."
As industry boomed, the population of Merthyr Tydfil, Swansea, and Cardiff surged by over 400%. This wasn't growth—it was a frantic, unplanned crowding into valleys that couldn't breathe.
Cesspits and open privies overflowed into rivers. Water was no longer life; it was a carrier of death.
Houses so packed that beds were shared by shifts of workers. They never grew cold.
Zero hygiene. No sewers. The streets became a regressive swamp of industrial waste.
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