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Sanitation

Sanitation is a term for the hygienic disposal or recycling of waste materialss, particularly human excrement. Sanitation is an important public health measure which is essential for the prevention of disease.

Topics:

• Toilets and the invention of the water closet
• sewers 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

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