Routine chlorination of a municipal water supply begins in the United States
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.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Sanitation and water treatment · technology system · Britain and North America first; now global · not located
- The collapse of infant and child mortality · phenomenon · Global · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
The role of public health improvements in health advances: the twentieth-century United States
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.
Demography · 2005 · Partly verified
Cutler D. and Miller G., Demography, vol. 42, 2005
Recorded on Sanitation and water treatment
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- Routine chlorination of a municipal water supply begins in the United States
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