Pollution and Reform in American Cities: 1870-1930

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University of Texas Press, 1980 - Medical - 212 pages
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Contents

The American Response
35
The Smoke Problem in
83
The AntiNoise Campaign 18931932
135
Copyright

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American City anti-noise Association Atlanta became Board of Health Boston Chicago cholera citizens city officials city's civic collection and disposal Commission Committee construction Crane death rate Department disease disposal methods Drainage dumping economic efforts environmental reform epidemic factories George groups growth health officials History of Public horsecar houses Ibid improved incineration increased industrial cities John Journal Louis major Mary McDowell McDowell ment municipal engineers Municipal League Municipal Refuse Newark nineteenth century noise pollution October ordinances organizations Passaic River Pennsylvania percent Pittsburgh pollution problems population progress Progressivism Public Health refuse problem refuse reform Rudolph Hering sanitarians sanitary engineers sanitation sewer gas sewerage sewerage systems sewers slow sand filters smoke abatement smoke nuisance social Society sources streams street cleaning suburbs tion twentieth century typhoid fever United Waring Washington waste wastewater water closets water pollution water supply waterways waterworks women Women's Clubs York City

About the author (1980)

Martin V. Melosi is Distinguished University Professor of History and director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. He is the author or editor of fourteen books, including "Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast; Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment;" and "Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment,

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TitlePollution and Reform in American Cities: 1870-1930
AuthorMartin V. Melosi
EditorMartin V. Melosi
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity of Texas Press, 1980
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedAug 6, 2009
ISBN0292764596, 9780292764590
Length212 pages
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Business & Economics / Development / General
Medical / Forensic Medicine
Medical / General
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