Author: John Henry Rauch
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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Author: John H. Rauch
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ISBN: 9781332189687
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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Excerpt from A Report to the Board of Health of the City of Chicago, on the Necessity of an Extension of the Sewerage of the City The necessity of the systematic drainage of Chicago was not fully appreciated until it had suffered from epidemics for six years in succession, five of cholera and one of dysentery; the death rate during this period being higher than in any city in the United States. As the result of this terrible experience, on February 14, 1855, an act was passed by the Legislature of Illinois, creating the Board of Sewerage Commissioners. In compliance with the act, the commissioners were elected as prescribed, and steps immediately taken to give practical effect to the same, in surveys, and in the consideration of plans for the drainage of the city. The plan proposed by Mr. Chesbrough was adopted in December, and in 1856 the work of constructing sewers commenced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Chicago Dept of Health
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781371274825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Author: George Albert Soper
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Category : Sewage disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Author: CHICAGO. Board of Sewerage Commissioners
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: Chicago (Ill.). Board of Sewerage Commissioners
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Category : Sanitary engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: Chicago (Ill.). Board of Sewerage Commissioners
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Author: Melanie A. Kiechle
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295741945
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth. Melanie Kiechle examines nuisance complaints, medical writings, domestic advice, and myriad discussions of what constituted fresh air, and argues that nineteenth-century city dwellers, anxious about the air they breathed, attempted to create healthier cities by detecting and then mitigating the most menacing odors. Medical theories in the nineteenth century assumed that foul odors caused disease and that overcrowded cities—filled with new and stronger stinks—were synonymous with disease and danger. But the sources of offending odors proved difficult to pinpoint. The creation of city health boards introduced new conflicts between complaining citizens and the officials in charge of the air. Smell Detectives looks at the relationship between the construction of scientific expertise, on the one hand, and “common sense”—the olfactory experiences of common people—on the other. Although the rise of germ theory revolutionized medical knowledge and ultimately undid this form of sensory knowing, Smell Detectives recovers how city residents used their sense of smell and their health concerns about foul odors to understand, adjust to, and fight against urban environmental changes.

Author: Christine Meisner Rosen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521545709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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This book examines the rebuildings of Chicago, Boston, and Baltimore following great fires.

Author: Harold L. Platt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226670767
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 626

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