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Using a qualified plumber insures that they are able to provide us with safe drinking water and proper sanitation. Doctors have long recognized that these factors alone are one reason why we are capable of being disease free. Dr. Lewis Thomas, former head of New York’s Sloan Kettering Cancer Research Center and author of numerous articles and books that explain the glories of medicine to the lay person wrote in the 1984 spring edition of The Foreign Policy Journal the following:
“There is no question that our health has improved spectacularly in the past century. One thing seems certain: It did not happen because of improvements in medicine, or medical science, or even the presence of doctors, much of the credit should go to the plumbers and sanitary engineers of the western world. The contamination of drinking water, was at one time the single greatest cause of human disease and death for us. It remains so, along with starvation and malaria for the third world. Typhoid fever, cholera and dysentery were the chief threats to survival in the early part of the 19th century. Today, cholera is unheard of in this country. It would surely reappear if not for sanitary plumbing practices.”
Dr. Thomas is a world renowned physician and researcher. Like all great men, he is able to discern truths about the world beyond his specialty. Keep Dr. Thomas’s words in mind the next time you draw a glass of water from the kitchen tap. Human nature is such that we take for granted the benefits of indoor plumbing. The last time you woke up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom you didn’t have to go to an outhouse. Or when you got up in the morning, a nice hot shower helped jump start your day. These everyday occurrences all attribute to the fact that sanitary plumbing, even though often overlooked and forgotten, protects good health. The next time you encounter an ignorant person who demeans the importance of the plumbing industry,politely remind them that “The Plumber Protects The Health Of The Nation” .
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