Deadly fogs, moralistic diatribes, debunked medical theory — in his essay “Bad Air” Brett Beasley explores The Doom of the Great City (1880), a piece of Victorian science fiction considered to be the first modern tale of urban apocalypse: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/bad-air-pollution-sin-and-science-fiction-in-william-delisle-hay-s-the-doom-of-the-great-city-1880?utm_content=bufferb6f4d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer