In this entry you get to hear one of the rarest sounds to happen in Macabrepedia HQ, Matt knocking over his drink and ruining the carpet and furniture. Oh also, we discuss 5... kind of more like 6 or 7 of the worst, and somewhat obscure, jobs the poor could have in the 19th century. Including leech collecting, sewer hunters, chimney sweeps and more... Join us as we add another entry into our Macabrepedia.

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Ref:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8615000/dead-chimney-sweeps-parliament-warning/

https://victorianchildren.org/victorian-chimney-sweeps/#:~:text=Who%20were%20Victorian%20Chimney%20Sweeps%3F%20Chimney%20sweeps%20were,the%20only%20ways%20they%20could%20make%20a%20living. 

www.britannica.com/event/Victorian-era

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/503221/10-worst-jobs-victorian-era

London Labour and the London Poor, extra volume
 Mayhew, Henry, 1851
 Felonies on the River Thames

https://brompton.designmynight.com/6123830ad6a0d775761af7a9/the-sin-eater-lives-and-afterlives

https://archive.org/details/cu31924006488500/page/n14/mode/1up?view=theater

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