Sam Browne belt Sam Browne belt The Sam Browne belt is a wide belt, usually leather, supported by a narrower strap passing diagonally over the right shoulder (although Royal Canadian Mounted Police non-commissioned members wear theirs over the left shoulder). It is most often a part of a military or police uniform. General Sir Sam Browne was a 19th-century British Indian Army officer who had lost his left arm; this made it difficult for him to draw his sword, because the left hand was typically used to steady the scabbard while the right drew out the sword. Browne came up with the idea
19th-century London inefficient system of laborers and street sweepers at the time employed for maintaining cleanliness. The result was the passing of the Public Health Act 1848, which required city districts for the first time in British history to provide street cleansing, paving, sewers, and water supply. Atmospheric pollution fueled by the burning of cheap soft coal created the most notorious climactic phenomenon of 19th century London, the Pea soup fog. Air pollution caused by burning wood or coal was nothing new to London, complaints exist about the city's dirty atmosphere as far back as the 13th century, but the population explosion