For personal finance websites Wallethub Recently named San Francisco, the healthiest American city of 2024, my response was more smile than surprise. The truth is that San Franciscans have given them high health marks for over a century.
In fact, on March 8, 1921, the issue of “Health and Climate Assets” San Francisco Businessevery week of 10 cents produced by the Chamber of Commerce, the city declared the American public health and climate-oriented champion under the headline “Golden Gate Radiate Health.”
meanwhile Wallethub Based on four categories: Healthcare, Fitness, Greenery and Food, San Francisco’s previous boosters are based on productivity and industrial efficiency, more sunlight hours (2869!), and the latest drainage system as part of the main health yard stick. But what might pause for current readers is San Francisco Businesss References to rats, milk, children.
The devastating earthquakes and fires of 1921 and 1906 remained a traumatic memory for many. However, over the next 15 years, San Franciscans were warmed to the unintended consequences of city reconstruction. As city health officer William C. Hustler favorably commented, “The 1906 fire excluded the district, which was designed as a slum.”
Source: Stories by Jeff Miller on Medium – thebolditalic.com
