Just so we are all clear that nothing changes. This, on the 1832 cholera epidemic.

And, still in plus ça change mode, the government wanted you to be damn sure if you got cholera it was all your fault, not theirs.

Both citations from Ruth Richardson's magnificent, and never surpassed, 'Death, Dissection and the Destitute'. Who says I don't do holiday fun?

Having read the responses, I must add that, while the 1832 government was wanting neither to vivisect living patients nor keep the population down, they absolutely were trying (& succeeding) to enact a new law to permit the sale of the bodies of the poor for medical dissection.