“In the wards, children are crowded two and three in a bed in airless rooms, foetid with the smell of kerosene heaters.”

“The councillors pointed out everyone knew cholera was due to miasma, the rising of bad smells from the foetid surrounds.”

“She lived and worked night after night in stinking tenements and foetid shelters packed with unwashed humans.”

“None of the plants can be seen from the interstate, but their presence is betrayed by the fetid smell of factory effluents.”