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"Perhaps no other advancement of public health has been as significant. Yet, few know the intriguing story of a simple idea-disinfecting public water systems with chlorine-that in just 100 years has saved more lives than any other single health development in human history. At the turn of the 20th century, most scientists and doctors called the addition of chloride of lime, a poisonous chemical, to public water supplies not only a preposterous idea but also an illegal act - until a courageous physician, Dr. John L. Leal, working with George W. Fuller, the era's greatest sanitary engineer, proved it could be done safely and effectively on a large scale. This is the first book to tell the incredible true story of the first use of chlorine to disinfect a city water supply, in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1908. This important book also corrects misinformation long-held in the historical record about who was responsible for this momentous event, giving overdue recognition to the true hero of the story-an unflagging champion of public health, Dr. John L. Leal."--Back cover Perhaps no other advancement of public health has been as significant. Yet, few know the intriguing story of a simple idea-disinfecting public water systems with chlorine-that in just 100 years has saved more lives than any other single health development in human history. At the turn of the 20th century, most scientists and doctors called the addition of chloride of lime, a poisonous chemical, to public water supplies not only a preposterous idea but also an illegal act. Then a courageous physician, working with the era's greatest sanitary engineer, proved it could be done safely and effectively on a large scale. This is the first book to tell the incredible true story of the first continuous use of chlorine to disinfect a city water supply, in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1908. This important book also corrects misinformation long-held in the historical record about who was responsible for this momentous event, giving overdue recognition to the true hero of the story-an unflagging champion of public healthy, Dr. John L. Leal. Book jacket Front Cover 1 Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Abbreviations 12 Foreword 14 Preface 18 Journey to Launch a Revolution 22 Demons, Miasma, and the Death Spiral 28 Germs, Disease, and Bacteriology 66 Progress in Disinfection and Filtration 92 Paterson and the Passaic River 122 Leal—Hero of Public Health 132 Fuller—The Greatest Sanitary Engineer 166 Jersey Water Wars 192 Bacteria on Trial—1906 to 1908 204 Chlorination Plant at Boonton 220 Chlorine on Trial—1908 to 1910 232 Revolution and Conquest 278 Epilogue—1908 and Beyond 314 Bibliography 340 About the Author 370 Index 372 The chlorination of drinking water is accepted worldwide as an effective way to kill deadly pathogens, but at the turn of the 20th Century, adding chlorine to water was considered revolutionary - even heretical - by science, until a courageous physician proved it could be done.