1842
Medicine
Britain
Sanitary reform and the sewer
Edwin Chadwick's report linked filth, disease and poverty, prompting municipal sewers.
Why it mattered
Sanitation saved more lives than any drug of the century.
Industrial Age
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Edwin Chadwick's report linked filth, disease and poverty, prompting municipal sewers.
Why it mattered
Sanitation saved more lives than any drug of the century.
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