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Branch links a health concept to the field of medicine that claims it. Wikipedia notes that by the late 19th century "a golden era of bacteriology ensued," the branch of science that grew directly out of germ theory once pathogens could finally be identified. This dimension groups concepts that belong to the same medical or scientific branch.

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1848 1
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1. Wikipedia: Public Health Act 1848
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These national and local movements led to the Public Health Act, finally passed in 1848.
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