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All Hygiene and Sanitation

Milestones belonging to the founding investigations and legislation that established sanitation as a public health practice. Belongs here: the Chadwick Sanitary Report, the Public Health Act 1848. Does not belong here: a disease-frequency study not specific to sanitation, grouped under epidemiology.

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735 BCE 1
All Hygiene and Sanitation
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1. Wikipedia: Sanitation
WikipediaSanitation, History section, ancient Rome
Quote, Sanitation, History section, ancient Rome
The first sewers of ancient Rome were built between 800 and 735 BCE.
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