And so, in fact, they concocted a couple of early, you know, founding public-health interventions in the system of the city, one of which was called the "Nuisances Act," which they got everybody as far as they could to empty out their cesspools and just pour all that waste into the river.
De facto, eles foram pioneiros, ao fazer intervenções de saúde pública no sistema da cidade, uma das quais foi a chamada "Lei Contra as Moléstias", que obrigavam todos os que estavam sob a sua alçada a esvaziar as fossas e a despejar todos os dejetos no rio.