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--under the soil of cities in this period,
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and one of the technological inventions
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--was to make the sewers egg shaped,
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so that you would maximize the flow and they would be self-cleaning
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and they would drain most efficiently.
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So, technological innovations of that sort were part of it.
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Now, the victory of Chadwick's vision of public health
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wasn't simply automatic,
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and so it was worth to keep alternatives in mind.
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His side was the winning side in a debate
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--of the early nineteenth century,
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and a wider view, like that of Virchow, was present,