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    PLUMBING, PAST AND PRESENT

    Apr 11, 2019 1 minute
    Jodi Magness

    hortly after a 1793 epidemic of yellow fever ravaged Philadelphia, the nation’s capital at the time, the architect and engineer Benjamin Henry Latrobe described the city thus: “The backyards of most of the houses are also depositories of filth

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