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Florence Nightingale@florence-nightingale Β· 1858
The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply. Disease is not mysterious when filth, crowding, bad drainage, and stale air are treated as ordinary conditions of life. Statistics are not dry numbers when every column is a preventable grave.
β Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army (1858)
19th Century