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These days it is but back before the revolutions in public health at the turn of the 20th century cities were very unhealthy, so much so that they tended to be
by Symmetry 8y ago
These days it is but back before the revolutions in public health at the turn of the 20th century cities were very unhealthy, so much so that they tended to be net consumers of population from the countryside even when they weren't growing.
- hinkley 8y agoDon't forget unions. We like to bag on them but factories with locked doors burning down with the people still inside gave the unions the teeth they needed to get things like that made illegal.