Paul de Sorbait erkannte bereits 1679 in seiner "Pest-Ordnung", dass hygienische Maßnahmen unerlässlich für...

Experience has led us to realize how particularly useful and necessary cleanliness is for preventing infection, and vice versa, how squalor causes and sustains such evil. Therefore, we expressly condemn the depositing of blood, entrails, heads or bones from slaughtered livestock, of cabbage leaves, crayfish shells, snails, eggshells or similar waste in alleys and squares; similarly, neither should any dead dogs, cats or fowl be thrown out into the streets but carried out of the city.