. The sanitation of cities. LONDON, ENGLANDShowing boat for convejing sewage sludge to the North Seawhence it is discharged fifteenth century that faint interest began to bemanifested in the study of sanitation and notuntil well into the nineteenth that the subject be-gan to be understood. As late as 1847 JohnPhillips, one of the first engineers to make an of-ficial report on sanitary conditions in London,stated that conditions as he found them were sobad as to defy description. In 1848, 1849, and from 1852 to 1854, Londonwas devastated by cholera. In 1849, 14,600deaths were recorded; and in t
. The sanitation of cities. LONDON, ENGLANDShowing boat for convejing sewage sludge to the North Seawhence it is discharged fifteenth century that faint interest began to bemanifested in the study of sanitation and notuntil well into the nineteenth that the subject be-gan to be understood. As late as 1847 JohnPhillips, one of the first engineers to make an of-ficial report on sanitary conditions in London,stated that conditions as he found them were sobad as to defy description. In 1848, 1849, and from 1852 to 1854, Londonwas devastated by cholera. In 1849, 14,600deaths were recorded; and in the latter half of1854, 10,675 deaths. The connection betweenthe rapid spread of the disease, and a contami- 64. 65
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