The People's Health: Industrial era- diseases.

Question 1

TB: what does it stand for?

Answer 1

tuberculosis.

Question 2

TB: what is the cause and how is it spread?

Answer 2

bacteria.
person to person through coughing.
poorly ventilated houses and crowded conditions- spreads easily.

Question 3

TB: what are the symptoms.

Answer 3

attacked the lungs and made the victim spit up blood.
weight loss.
chest pains.

Question 4

Typhoid: what is the cause and how is it spread?

Answer 4

bacteria.
water and food that has been contaminated by the sweat, urine or faeces of someone carrying the disease.
flies on food.

Question 5

Typhoid: what are the symptoms?

Answer 5

headaches.
fever.
constipation and then diarrhoea.

Question 6

Typhus: what are the causes and how is it spread?

Answer 6

passed by bites from body lice.
highly contagious in overcrowded areas.
↳ where clothes and bodies went unwashed.

Question 7

Typhus: what are the symptoms?

Answer 7

similar to Typhoid.
2 diseases often confused with each other.

Question 8

what were these diseases caused by?

Answer 8

appalling living conditions, people died prematurely.

Question 9

what was the death rate, who did it kill most and what was the average death age in some areas?

Answer 9

high death ate among babies and children aged under five.
average death in some area was as low as 14.

Question 10

Liverpool was a large industrial city and Rutland was a rural area. the figures show the impacts that wealth and location had on the average age of death. what are the figures for L & R: GENTRY OR PROFESSIONALS.
TRADESMEN.
LABOURERS.

Answer 10

L- G: age 35 years.
- T: age 22 years.
- L: age 15 years.

R- G: age 52 years.
- T: age 41 years.
- L: age 38 years.