Plumbing was seen as a real useful instrument in the fight against

water-borne disease and schools in waste management began to open

in the U.S., Britain and Germany.

President Theodore Roosevelt in March, 1905, attacked birth control and condemned the tendency towards smaller families as decadent, a sign of moral disease.

In 1905, a major effort was being made against the "patent"

medicine trade. The Good Housekeeping (a women's magazine) Institute

began to test packaged foods and release a list of those

that they found "pure". Samuel Hopkins Adams had a series

of articles in Colliers magazine about "The Great American Fraud",

warning that the "patent" medicine manufacturers were not only

creating a legitimate class of opium addicts and alcoholics,

but that they were also blackmailing newspapers, magazines and

store owners, as well as legislatures with the threat of

financial disenfranchisement if their sick trade was not

supported with articles, laws, and a lack of criticism and

undercutting.

Meanwhile, the "legitimate" pharmaceutical companies and

"real" doctors are busy killing their patients with an equally

strenous series of mixtures and treatments, but they want

articles and legislation. Within a year, they will get them.

It was in 1905 that a woman named Sweeney in Washington, D.C.

received radiation burns from X-rays taken during the treatment

of broken ribs. She had had seven x-ray sessions and the burns

became apparent five hours after the last visit. The burns were later diagnosed by another doctor and she decided to sue.
The case

went to the Supreme Court seven years later and the doctor won.

It was in 1905 that Freud (yes, that one) wrote his

"Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality", suggesting that one's

orientation is independent of one's physical gender.