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- ghm101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes the romans did clever stuff with sanitation, but don't forget to mention the lead pipes they used for drinking water - not quite as clever.
- ghm101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good novel on the subject
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/18/steven_johnsons_new_.html
Ghost Map
1854 cholera outbreak on London killing whole families & .
-The government didn't keep the details of the high death toll secret - published in newspaper (what would the gov't do today I wonder),
-a local doctor plots the deaths on a map and sees they are all occuring in clusters.
-Links the clusters to wells,
-sees that the wells are contaminated with sewerage,
-gets new sewers built cholera outbreaks diminish then stop.
True story & great novelisation of events. - Ruckgesicht, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's kind of funny, because I'm pretty sure sewers existed as long as 2500 years ago - perhaps you should read about the people who built them, fascinating story - they were called the Romans. Made a lot of buildings, hauled a lot of marble, killed a lot of people. Surprised you haven't heard of them.
- abid786, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually, vaccines are not thirteen thirty seven; they were "invented" in 1796 after Jenner's smallpox vaccine ;-) lol
- gregmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1vaccines are pretty 1337 tho
- thelab101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1didn't we already learn this from donny darko ;)
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