The Sanitary City; Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present.

The Sanitary City by Martin V. Melosi, Ph.D. [2010], appreciates the history of water and sewerage systems as a major part of the remedy to tame yellow fever and cholera, the measles, the plague and other communicable diseases that attacked city populations and killed thousands of people. The number of deaths was astounding. The success of the utility revolution may inspire contemporary efforts to eradicate traffic fatalities, gun violence and drug abuse in 21^st century America.

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