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Edinburgh’s population grew fast between 1500 and 1650, and a maze of tall, unsanitary tenements sprouted along the spine of the High Street.
The tenements of the Old Town and Georgian buildings of the New Town are still in residential use, with a range of stores, restaurants, pubs, and theaters sustaining the population.
To determine if airborne microorganisms can be inactivated, and therefore, prevent infection transmission, studies during the 1940's-1970's used ultraviolet germicidal irradation (UVGI) to inactivated airborne microorganisms under experimental conditions [ 19 20 21 22 ] and reduced airborne infections in a number of settings, such as hospitals [ 23 ] , military housing [ 24 ] , and classrooms [ 25 ] . However, UVGI was not effective against the highly contagious measles virus when children had extensive contact in buses and crowded tenements [ 26 27 ] . Thus, it fell into disfavor and has not been extensively employed nor has it been studied using molecular methods of detecting its efficacy.
Some of the buildings date from the 16th century, but it is also lined with buildings of almost every era, including numerous 17th- and 18th-century tenements called “lands,” sometimes 13 stories high.
They built the six- and eight-story tenements you see today, cramped quarters in buildings twice as high as those permitted elsewhere, with some floors no more than 6 ft high.