This brief extract underlines an important historical point which Boris Johnson may yet come to grasp
Typhus fever, cholera and smallpox were no respecters of persons. Although the diseases usually originated, and ravaged most severely, the very poorest of the labouring classes, they inevitably took their toll of all sections of the people.
JFC Harrison, Early Victorian Britain 1832-1851
John Harrison was a social and socialist historian who worked with E P Thompson. His obituary is below
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/05/jfc-harrison-obituary
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