Does Victorian Public Health Service Performance Monitoring Fall Prey To Goodhart’s Law?

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In the early twentieth century, Hanoi was flourishing as part of the French colonies and had modern European-style sanitation for some of the more affluent neighbourhoods. Unfortunately, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and before long residents were terrorised by plagues of disease-infested vermin who decided to make the innovative…