作者: Sandy Cairncross
DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-3156.2003.01096.X
关键词: Waterborne diseases 、 Respiratory infection 、 Beneficial effects 、 Water supply 、 Development economics 、 Child mortality 、 Medicine 、 Hygiene 、 Surgery
摘要: In the early part of twentieth century, British and American sanitary engineers epidemiologists, impressed by beneficial effects water supply on child mortality, also discussed with some curiosity what came to be called Mills‐Reinicke phenomenon. By this they referred surprising fact that reduction in mortality accompanying improvements was greater than could accounted for fall caused enteric, waterborne diseases. A satisfactory explanation never found, but