The Great Horse Manure Crisis: Why 'Inevitable' Disasters Keep Getting Rewritten

<![CDATA[London. 1894. Tens of thousands of horses, each producing up to thirty pounds of manure daily. New York. A hundred thousand horses. Even more manure. Other large cities were similar. Dung filled the streets and gutters. Equine urine was released everywhere. The streets stank. Flies bred by the billions. On sunny days, dust choked pedestrians and drivers. On rainy days, the streets became a slippery, slimy, disease-carrying muck that oozed into sewers and polluted nearby waterways. The smell was overwhelming, and health hazards abounded.]]>