The Jungle

What sanitation problems did the author present?

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The author presents numerous sanitation problems through the book.

Homes:

• no clean water

• no sweage systems

•neighborhoods built on garbage dumps

Factories:

• the use of diseased cattle

• people falling into the tanks to their deaths, only to be used for lard or fertilizer

• spoiled meat sent out for sale

• dead rodents thrown in with the meat

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The Jungle