Disease during the Industrial Revolution

Disease was a threat during the Industrial Revolution. Due to the changes in the way people lived as well as the conditons of worked they used to perform, disease was able to spread more rapidly. Take for example, the living condition ...... explains in her report, many of these conditions led the spread of disease very quickly. Housing for low class worker was cramped in and was built with no regard for hygiene, the result led to large slums, small houses, narrow road. Bacteria grew very quickly because of the weather condition. Two main disease during that time were cholera and typhoid. These two diseases were caused by filthy water because, factories would dump waste into rivers and streams that people used to provide their homes with water. Going back to cholera and typhoid, these two are easily taking care of today. With basic cleanliness, underground sewages pipes and regular cleaned controlled water supply doing most of the work to preventthe water being inffected.
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