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The origin of the term 'Hygiene Factor' may be of interest and included subject to verification:

"In 1884 a cholera epidemic spread from the south of France to Naples. This raged until 1911 and the Italian government did nothing to fix the problem in Naples but simply threw a cordon sanitaire around the city until the epidemic died out with the loss of many thousands of people. Historians have analysed this episode very closely and concluded that the city hygiene was to blame. Naples employed just six street cleaners. Their job was not just to sweep the streets but to un-block the open sewers. When the number of street cleaners dropped to four the epidemic exploded. This is why the term ‘Hygiene Factor’ was coined by Frederick Herzberg."

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