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Since OP didn’t provide reasons, I will. Window screens: malaria prevention. Indoor plumbing: make sanitation so convenient that you don’t have any reasons no
by allhacks 7y ago
Since OP didn’t provide reasons, I will.
Window screens: malaria prevention.
Indoor plumbing: make sanitation so convenient that you don’t have any reasons not to use it (vs throwing the old night bucket outta the window). Obviously city scale sanitation == no dysentery, cholera...etc.
- nickserv 7y agoSanitation systems are really old, though. I was impressed with the sophistication of the one present in Glanum, a small (but wealthy) Roman provincial town abandoned in the 2nd century. The sewer system runs underneath the main street: baths, villas, and the abatoir connect to it. To say nothing of the ones in major cities of the time.