CHAPTER:2 LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 HISTORY Today, we know that sanitation makes a tremendous contribution to preventing disease and keeping people healthy. Beauties always that way. Throughout most of our history, sanitation practices were practically non-existent. Yet the history of sanitation dates back at least 7.000 years, to the Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. 7,000 YEARS AGO The Babylonians discovered that contaminated water could cause disease. They brought in fresh water every day. 2, 000 YEARS AGO the physician Hippocrates discovered that cleansing could prevent infection. The Roman Empire made great progress in the area of sanitation. Build aqueducts to bring in fresh water, and …show more content…
Sewage: The term sewage is used to indicate the liquid waste from the community and it includes sullage, discharge from latrines, urinals, stables, etc., industrial waste and storm water. The term night soil is sometimes used to indicate the human and animal excreta. Following terms are used m connection with different types of sewage:
Stormwater: The term storm water is used to indicate the rain water of the locality.
Subsoil water: This indicates the ground water which finds is an entry into sewers through leaks.
Sullage: The term sullage is used to indicate the waste water from bathrooms, kitchens. etc. It is merely waste water and does not create a bad smell.
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(iii) Common sewer: The sewer on which all the inhabitants have equal right is known as a common sewer.
(iv)Depressed sewer: When an obstruction or obstacle is met with, the sewer is constructed lower than the adjacent section to overcome the obstruction or obstacle such a section of the sewer is known as a depressed sewer.
(v) Main sewer: This term is used to indicates the sewer which obtains its discharge from a few branch or sub main sewer, it thus serves relatively a large area.
2.2.5 Sewerage:
The entire science of collecting and carried sewage by water carried system through sewer is known as the sewerage and the sewage thus collected conveyed is taken to a suitable place to its disposal. 2.3 SANITATION PROBLEMS FOR INDIAN SLUMS l. Sanitation is another issue that plays a huge role in Indian slum areas. According to the research I have made, people that live in these slums are living in a 2/3 space with dirt floors and poor ventilation. This is no place to call
With an increase in the divide of economic equality during the Gilden Age, low-income individuals often lived in overcrowding housing, and “they were were served—if at all—by inadequate public water supplies and waste disposal”. These housing conditions were perfect for contagious diseases to spread and flourish. However, throughout the Progressive Era, germ theory rapidly improved as the United States became more aware of how germs and diseases spread through both people and contaminated objects. The average citizen, along with large corporations took precautions of sanitary methods “to insure cleanliness, fresh air, pure water, proper sanitary arrangements, etc,” along with detecting diseases early before they could spread. Sanitation for illnesses before the Progressive Era was often minimal causing the disease to rapidly spread.
Many villages must use chemicals to purify their drinking water. 7. In medieval times an infected person was placed in isolation. 8. Dentists have special equipment to sterilize their instruments.
Though they did not know it did the opposite. They had built wells to get fresh water from
Manure and chemical filled lagoons are a common component of industrial farming. A colossal amount of waste is produced from COFAs, therefore it has to go somewhere. That somewhere would be the prior mentioned lagoons which are then sprayed or leaked into the soil. Contaminated soil can affect both ground and surface water. The runoff can go in two directions; either absorbed into the ground or washed into rivers or lakes in the surrounding area.
Sanitation was a problem in homes and public places. Many women lived in tenement houses and for this reason, women had difficulty cleaning and caring for the house. (Doc C) Basements were damp, stairways certainly weren’t fireproof, and finding untainted food was a large issue for people who lived in tenements. (Doc C) Factories were also filthy. Meat factories had meat falling onto the floor onto dirt and sawdust.
Runoff, a common problem in many areas, has many causes. These causes, although sometimes avoidable,such as pollution, it can be repaired. As pollution and erosion, two of the main topics in this paper, affect the water quality, the agents aiding the processes are unstoppable. While agents are unstoppable, runoff is still controllable as far as the rate of runoff. When writing a paper such as this, the many information collected is shown in separate paragraphs, corresponding to the ideas.
There were rats and garbage in apartments and each apartment housed an entire family. Sewage and garbage accumulated so much because there was no plumbing, so waste was dumped into streets and rivers. “The slums . . . [have] streets [that] are usually unpaved, full of holes, filthy and strewn with refuse . .
430 B.C.E. “was particularly free from all other kinds of illness…” , but little did citizens know that “In the next 3 years, most of the population was infected, and perhaps as many as 75,000 to 100,000 people, 25% of the population, died.” During this time period, people were already being removed from the countryside and put in the city. The sickness made it particularly hard for the immigrants. There were no living quarters for the newcomers and they were forced to live in temporary homes that exposed them to sickness that caused them to die quickly. Soon,“It was 430 BCE and the Athenians were holed up behind Athens’ city walls.”.
Hurricanes can be powerful storms that form over ocean water in the tropics. Hurricane Sandy occurred in 2012 along the east coast along the United States. Hurricanes cause wide havoc to many coastal cities and inland cities and are very dangerous. First, there are many causes of hurricanes. Hurricanes are a storm with violent wind in particular a tropical cyclone in the tropics.
They made a pipe system for clean drinking water to supply
(Document E) This meant that almost all year they were dirty and filthy, and hygiene can help prevent illnesses if you take care of your body. To conclude, people in medieval Europe didn’t take care
There was no running water, they would have to use pumps. The waste would be pumped into nearby rivers. Elizabethan medicine was basic, to say the least. Letting blood was conducted by cupping or leaches. Pains were treated in all different ways.
Because so many people were forced to live in one common area, the buildings would be inflicted with unsanitary conditions. These included poor plumbing and a lack of running water. Larson referenced the fact that people in the community would dump waste into the city’s water supply, which contributed to the spread of sickness and disease and went untreated because of limited access to healthcare. The city’s insufficient sanitation systems led to diseases like Typhus and Cholera running rampant through the city, infecting many.
In Europe not even kings or queens had plumbing let alone the peasants, because of these poor living conditions were garbage and feces were everywhere disease spread more quickly. The poor living conditions were observed by the Japanese when the Portuguese arrived. They are accounted by saying that the Europeans cared nothing for their hygiene, never bathed and were all around disgusting. The arrival of the Europeans created huge epidemics for the natives because of disease that the natives were just not used too and the disgusting living conditions did not help
Epidemics in the dark ages population increased Hygienic Condition got worst . Not many people Knew about medicine or anything that has to do with Medical. Also, they didn 't have a good Medical teaching system. They had many diseases and they were contagious. The most contagious disease was Leprosy , that disease stopped you from doing a lot of stuff so other