The sterilization and disinfection machines: sanitation and public health in the late Ottoman Empire
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2022
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Özet
The increasing speed of the flow of people from place to place with the help of steamships
and trains widened the scope of contagious diseases, such as cholera and plague in the Ottoman
Empire in the nineteenth century. After the construction of the first quarantine stations in the
Ottoman Empire during the first half of the nineteenth century, the Ottomans continued to
follow contemporary developments in sanitation and started to use cutting-edge technology
such as sterilization and disinfection machines to secure public health.1 There were two methods
of sanitation in the Ottoman Empire; sanitation with heat (tebhîr-i tabîî) through the sterilization
machines (etüv) and vapor, and sanitation with chemical compounds including acid fenic (phenolic acid) and calcium chloride.2 The sterilization machines used one hundred-and-ten degree
vapor pressure (tazyik-i buhar ile tathir ve tebhir-i ameliyat) to disinfect clothes and other personal
belongings in a process that took about seventeen minutes.
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Ottoman Empire, Sterilization
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Taylor and Francis
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Adak, U. (2022). The sterilization and disinfection machines: sanitation and public health in the late Ottoman Empire. Middle Eastern Studies, 1-14.
