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Readers of the BMJ, the UK's leading Medical Journal, have voted "the sanitary revolution" as the the most important medical milestone since 1840. The work of John Snow (left) and Edwin Chadwick in the identification of water borne disease and the subsequent need to pipe clean water to homes and pipe sewage away has hailed as important protection against health hazards.

A total of 11 300 votes were were cast which resulted in the sanitary revolution beating the discovery of antibiotics and anaesthetics into second and third place respectively.

For the full article see the BMJ, Volume 334, Page 334.

26th of January 2007