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Equally fascinating are the two parallel, partly residential streets — O’Reilly and Obrapía — where grand neoclassical and colonial buildings intermingle with decrepit tenements.
Within ten years of the Young Pretender’s occupation of Holyrood, Edinburgh’s town council proposed a plan to relieve the chronic overcrowding of the Royal Mile tenements by constructing a New Town on land to the north of the castle.
Large families lived in high tenements, sharing a well with hundreds of other families.
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.
Edinburgh’s population grew fast between 1500 and 1650, and a maze of tall, unsanitary tenements sprouted along the spine of the High Street.