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This Month in Statistics History: The Statisticians Behind Modern Sanitation Systems

November 2, 2026 Leave a Comment

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On UN World Toilet Day (November 19), we honor statisticians such as John Snow, who traced cholera to a London pump in 1854, and Florence Nightingale, whose data showed sanitation could cut hospital deaths from 42% to 2%.

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