17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Jim Choate wrote:
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 20:22:18 -0500 From: Michal Hohensee <mah248@nyu.edu> Subject: Re: y2k/gary north delusions
You cannot sustain a modern city without a working sewer system. Remember what cities were like in the middle ages? I believe some historians refer to them as "population sinks" for the surrounding countryside. Not for a lack of wealth or commerce, but for a lack of sanitation.
Paris and London had populations of over a million each and didn't have a sewer system. It was traditional for people to throw their chamber pots out into the street along with the offal from the various animals.
Guess why they had those devastating epidemics. - Igor.