Sanitation
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Image:Ethanol Car.jpg Sanitation is a term for the hygienic disposal or recycling of waste materials, particularly human excrement. Sanitation is an important public health measure which is essential for the prevention of disease.
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Topics
- Toilets and the invention of the water closet
- sewers, sewage collection and disposal and sewage treatment
- cesspits
- the germ theory of disease (and its predecessor, the miasma theory of disease)
- Dr. John Snow and the prevention of cholera in Soho
- Middens
- excretion
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