Routine chlorination of a municipal water supply begins in the United States

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1. Story
2. Continuous chlorination of a public drinking water supply is introduced at Jersey City, New Jersey, and spreads rapidly through American cities over the following two decades. Together with sand filtration this is the technology to which Cutler and Miller later attribute roughly half of the urban mortality decline of the period.
3. Knowledge
4. The collapse of infant and child mortality
5. Sanitation and water treatment
6. Routine chlorination of a municipal water supply begins in the United States
7. Connections
8. Sanitation and water treatment
9. The collapse of infant and child mortality
10. Edwin Chadwick
11. The rise in life expectancy at birth
12. The collapse of infant and child mortality
13. John Snow
14. The Broad Street pump handle is removed
15. Routine chlorination of a municipal water supply begins in the United States
16. The rise in life expectancy at birth
17. Sanitation and water treatment
18. Routine chlorination of a municipal water supply begins in the United States
19. Evidence
20. Supports the attribution of roughly half the urban mortality decline in major United States cities between 1900 and 1936 to clean water technologies. V55 verification basis: not retrieved; the exact percentages and their confidence intervals are unchecked and the headline figure is quoted approximately for that reason.