Slut's wool would more commonly be called "dust bunnies" these
days: it is the collection of hair, dust and fluff that gathers
in corners. To the Victorians, "slut" primarily meant a woman of
untidy or unclean habits, and only by extension a woman of loose
sexual morals. Low Church denotes a variety of Anglican church
that strives for simplicity in the decoration of churches and
the style of worship, as well as greater liberalisation in the
Church of England's doctrines. Its opposite is (predictably)
High Church, exemplified by the Oxford Movement. Cholera
originated in India and first spread widely in 1817, during what
is considered the first global cholera pandemic. The disease was
carried by merchants and British soldiers and sailors as far as
China and Japan, from where cholera gained its reputation as an
oriental disease. The disease first arrived in Europe and London
during the second global pandemic (1829-1851). The disease
spread rapidly and was nearly always fatal: 10,000 people died
in London alone