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Sanitation

Sanitation is a term for the hygienic disposal or recycling of waste materials, particularly human excrement. Sanitation is an important public health measure which is essential for the prevention of disease[?].

This is a pathetic stub article -- much more needs to be written here

Topics to cover:

Toilets and the invention of the water closet
sewers and sewage treatment
cesspits[?]
the germ theory of disease (and its predecessor, the miasma theory of disease)
Dr. John Snow and the prevention of cholera in Soho

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