Your point on the proper, theory-led goals of water sanitation is interesting. I think there’s maybe a decent way for us to figure this out.
The copy of Turneaure and Russel’s water sanitation textbook I used was from around 1940. But the first edition of that was from 1901. If we could find some analogous top-tier sources utilized just before some insights from germ theory we could probably figure out how much of the best-practices in planning changed from before/after the pervasion of the theory.
Do you think that would be fair or did I miss something? Because I’d believe you very well might be right. What I wrote was a fair representation of my sources but this is an area where I am very aware that my sources are few. So I don’t hold these beliefs nearly as confidently as my views related to something like physics in the early 1900s where my reading has been far more exhaustive.
That would be an interesting mini-research project. Also one of us could check my references here and see what I was relying on when I made those statements…
Your point on the proper, theory-led goals of water sanitation is interesting. I think there’s maybe a decent way for us to figure this out.
The copy of Turneaure and Russel’s water sanitation textbook I used was from around 1940. But the first edition of that was from 1901. If we could find some analogous top-tier sources utilized just before some insights from germ theory we could probably figure out how much of the best-practices in planning changed from before/after the pervasion of the theory.
Do you think that would be fair or did I miss something? Because I’d believe you very well might be right. What I wrote was a fair representation of my sources but this is an area where I am very aware that my sources are few. So I don’t hold these beliefs nearly as confidently as my views related to something like physics in the early 1900s where my reading has been far more exhaustive.
That would be an interesting mini-research project. Also one of us could check my references here and see what I was relying on when I made those statements…