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=Urban Problems (Crime and Pollution)= Crime was a growing problem in American cities. From 1880 to 1900, the murder rate jumped sharply 25 per million people to more than 100 per million people. Disease and pollution impacted an even bigger threat. Improper sewage disposal contaminated city drinking water and triggered epidemics of typhoid fever and cholera. Even though flush toilets and sewer systems existed in the 1870s, pollution remained a big problem as horse manure was left in the streets, smoke belched from chimneys, and soot and ash accumulated from coal and wood fires.