Health and Housing

Question 1

For most working class families what was their accommodation?

Answer 1

Rented

Question 3

Most living class families live in one room. True, or False.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Water was collected where?

Answer 4

A shared pump

This meant that of there was a disease people got sick really quickly

Question 5

Beacaue of major overcrowding, what happened often in these tenements?

Answer 5

Diseases spread really easily

Question 6

What percentage of working class families lived in one room?

Answer 6

35%

Question 7

Typhoid

Answer 7

Waterborne disease
Spread through ingested feces (food,drink)
Verify common - Prince Albert
80,000 soldiers dies of Typhoid in the American civil war

Question 8

Tuberculosis

Answer 8

‘Consumption’ consumes the lungs from the inside
Coughing up blood, shortness of breath
‘White Plague’
Not very contagious but because of overcrowding and lack of sanitation it spread far and fast

Question 9

Diphtheria

Answer 9

Airborne
‘The Strangling Angel of Children’
Causes severe inflammation of the nose throat and windpipe (trachea)

Question 10

Typhus

Answer 10

Spread by bugs (life, fleas, mites)
Nausea, vomiting,diarrhea, dark, spotty rash
Overcrowding, poor sanitation

Question 11

Public health measures

Answer 11

Police Burghs Act (Scotland) 1833
Public Health Commission 1842
Public Health Act 1848
Public Health (Scotland) 1867
Public Health Act 1875

Question 12

What do they do in the one room they live in?

Answer 12

Cooking
Sleeping
Eating
Living