Sanitation improved the quality of healthcare during the Industrial Revolution. Better sanitation increased patients’ safety. During the Industrial Revolution, Dr. Joseph Lister introduced doctors to washing hands between treating patients. Using Calcium Chloride as a disinfectant drastically reduced death rates on his ward from 12% to 1%. Soon after, he introduced the technique of using carbolic acid as an antiseptic during operations. The death rates of his surgical patients dropped from 45% to 15%.
Sanitation also changed the quality of life outside of hospitals. Sanitary reforms that were established made it possible to increase the good health of people. The sanitary reforms in city living spaces included clean water supplies and better waste drainage to sewer treatment plants, instead of open city streets.
Sanitation also changed the quality of life outside of hospitals. Sanitary reforms that were established made it possible to increase the good health of people. The sanitary reforms in city living spaces included clean water supplies and better waste drainage to sewer treatment plants, instead of open city streets.