Blogging the Human Genome

Despite Pott?s prescient work, English chimney sweeps continued to suffer for decades, in ways that sweeps in other countries did not. Pott scared the Danish sweepers guild, for instance, into urging daily baths on its members, and sweeps in other countries adopted acrobat-tight clothing with gaiters and hoods to keep soot off their skin. Cockney sweeps, meanwhile, when they weren?t scrambling up chimneys starkers, wore loose shirts and baggy pants whose folds actually collected soot. The English government tried to replace boy sweeps with mechanical contraptions in 1817, but special interests killed the movement. Not until 1840 did reform legislation pass, and even then some homeowners kept sending the urchins up the chimneys for decades more, slowly strangling, ash by ash, that crucial little bit of chromosome 17.

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