The Plumber as a Health Expert 1926
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tary Engineering Association, it gives me a great deal of pleasure to be here this afternoon among the engineers and the plumbers, for the reason that I personally feel the plumber was the original health officer and that the foundations of preventative medicine and public health were founded upon the activities of the engineer and the plumber in the very beginning. So that basically the things we take for granted in public health are those things that the engineer and the plumber are responsible for. In speaking of plumbing we are apt to forget its very ancient origin. The remains of extensive and well constructed sewers, dating from the time of the Assyrians, the eighth or ninth century, B.C., are still to be seen in the City of Nimrud. Similarly the great sewer of Rome, the Cloaca Maxima, is probably three thousand years old, and still in use. This year I was privileged to make a visit to the old country and in the ancient City of Bath, where a splendid Roman bath has been discovered in perfect preservation with the exception of the roof. I had pointed out to me some lead pipes rolled and welded by those ancient Roman plumbers, and here and there showing a perfect wiped joint that neither you nor any other plumbers could improve upon from the point of technical skill. Plumbing is surely an art, and nowadays indeed a science, that has been handed down from master to journeyman and apprentice through the ages, and many of its principles have reached us little changed from the original intent of the craft. The magnificent engineering and plumbThe Plumber as a Health Expert
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