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So, risanamento, this enormous project,
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both above and below ground, was related-- it was a cousin
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of the sanitary movement in Britain.
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It was a first-cousin of the rebuilding of Paris and Lyon.
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But it was distinctive too, because it's the only example
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of a project conducted exclusively for the purpose
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of defeating a single disease, and that was cholera.
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Was it a success?
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Well, Naples was rebuilt.
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And there's no doubt that the health of the city thereafter
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was greater than it had been before.
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But unfortunately there too--