Quote Originally Posted by Rahl View Post
Health does not reduce the squalor level, it will stay the same. What it does is giving +0.5% population growth and 5% public order. That means on the long run public health does not help raising public order, because for every point in population growth, you will get one squalor level that reduces public order. Though on the short term it will help the public order and since the 3rd level gives law a bonus and health reduces the chances of plague it's never bad to build some aquaeducts and baths.
Yeah the big problem is the increase in pop growth. That's why public health is a very short term solution, I should have probably pointed that out... The problem is that in the short term it may raise public order but +0.5% pop growth will translate into more and more citizens, even more when the town is already huge, and that'll just increase squalor later on by even more, so I try to avoid the public health buildings... the problem with that is plagues... although sometimes a plague will actually help keeping pop levels down ;)