Abstract
The study shows that the quality of hygiene was an important aspect of the design and evaluation of public space, particularly in the second half of the 19th century and the broader turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. In the long 19th century, hygiene was knowledge that described and reflected the human relationship to the external material conditions of its physical existence.
Practically everything that a person had to deal with throughout his life became an object of its interest: nutrition, clothing, work and rest, exercise and physical education, quality of housing, water supply, circula- tion of fresh air, and sex life.