Victorian Health (1830s-1900s)

Industrial revolution-from small towns to large towns and cities and factories.
Death rates in poor areas were high ,as well as infectious disease due to overcrowding in homes which were damp , bad sanitation and polluted water.
1. The poor only bathed once a year
2. most where undernourished , anemic rickety
Hospitals were overcrowded and those who had surgery had a huge chance of picking up infections as instruments were not steralised including the staffs hands
The streets where stanching and foul with overflowing cest pits which was just left to be carried away when it rained this travelled into nearby rivers which ended up in the River Thames.
Poor families owned only one pot for cooking they lived on soup and stew and would wash their dishes in the dirty water
Chlorea was spread by mainly the water supply

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