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Sanitation
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 .
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
See also
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