Chapter 8 Flashcards
What made towns and city stink?
Houses were built quickly and cheaply when people fled to places to find work in factories.
-They were crammed close together with narrow alleys between them
-built in terraces, also built back to back to save money.
Overcrowding,Usually five or more people lived in one small room, these rooms were rented from local landlords or factory owners
No planning or quality control
Why were towns and the cities so filthy?
Disposal of sewage Problem:
-none of houses had indoor toilets, managing a bucket in the corner of the room to be emptied again into the street or sold to farmers.
-There would be a street toilet with a wooden shed over it, it had a pump that provided water,but people often collected water from the local river. This would be filthy.
-No rubbish collections,litter bins,street cleaners,sewers or fresh runningwater
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What caused the Death in The Streets during Cholera times
Sewage trickled down the streets and into nearby rivers. Most families washed themselves in and drank from these rivers.Which caused diseases to thrive in towns.People also didnt know that germs could cause disease. People in slums uses filty water. Britain’s industrial towns were dirty, overcrowded.
Give examples of a disease caused by the filthy river
Cholera, Typhoid and Tuberculosis
How did the Boards of the Health and the politicians deal with the cholera outbreaks
They didn’t do much mainly because they didn’t know what caused cholera, they didn’t know that germs caused diseases
But they knew that it occured more often where living conditions were bad and crowded
What is the phrase ‘Public Health’
phrase used to describe the general health and well-being of ordinary people
What were the Boards of Health?
special groups to investigate the cholera outbreaks.
What was the Public Health Act
laws that allowed councils to spend money on cleaning up if they wanted to.
What were the two Theory of the Cholera outbreak
1.Miasma Theory:
caused by dirty air,stinking air that comes from the filthy towns
2.contagion theory:
having contact with a sick person.
How did John Snow Figure make a discovery about cholera
- He found out that those who didnt catch cholera got their water from somewhere else.
- he had the water pump in Broad street removed and there were no more deathes.
What was Joseph Bazalgette’s solution for this disease
he planned for an underground sewage system to take away sewage from London’s streets. He was given money to begin his sewer system right away
What did Nightingale do about the Cholera Disease
They set up a kitchen to feed the soldiers properly, cleaned the hospital and got hold of vital supplies for patients. Nightingale also wrote several books on nursing and set up nurse training school and advised the government on hospital design
What is social Pyramid
A system resembled for the rich,upper classes to the less wealthy,working classes at the bottom. Refers to cdifferent classes
How was public health improved
Discoveries such as anaesthetics and antiseptics made surgery safer. Smallpox vaccination prevented many deaths, better training had vastly improved the medical profession.
Where did poorer people in the Poor class live?
They lived in the centre of towns or cities
Where did the middle classes live
They lived further out of the towns
