The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform

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Between 1850 and 1900, Milwaukee’s rapid population growth also gave upward thrust to high death rates, infectious diseases, crowded housing, filthy streets, inadequate water supplies, and fantastic stench. The Healthiest City shows how a coalition of reform groups brought about community education and municipal action to reach for Milwaukee the title of “the healthiest city” by the 1930s. This highly praised book reminds us that cutting funds and regulations for preserving public health leads to inconvenience, illness, or even death.
    “A tremendous work. . . . Leavitt makes a speciality of three illustrative issues—smallpox, garbage, and milk, representing the larger areas of infectious disease, sanitation, and food keep watch over.”—Norman Gevitz, Journal of the American Medical Association
    “Leavitt’s research provides additional evidence . . . that improvements in sanitation, living conditions, and diet contributed more to the entire decline in mortality rates than advances in medical practice. . . . An excellent contribution to the history of urban reform politics and public health.”—Jo Ann Carrigan, Journal of American History


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