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Public Health pt 1

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1What did the Industrial Revolution lead to?Many factories were built
New jobs available
Urban Migration
2What did Urban Migration lead to? What classes moved to the urban areas?Overcrowding in urban areas.
People moved to find jobs.
These people were the poor and the middle class.
3What did overcrowding lead to?Poverty
Lack of clean water
Lack of sewage disposal
Disease spread easily
4What diseases were common in this time?Cholera
Typhoid
Typhus
5When were the Cholera outbreaks?1832
1841
1854
1866
6What were the symptoms of Cholera?Headache
Diarrhoea
Vomiting
Nausea
Cramps
7How is Cholera spread?Waterborne disease
8Why did it spread quicker among the poor and working class than the middle class and the rich?Poor and working class lived in overcrowded areas, so disease spread quickly through water
Rich and the Middle class lived on the outskirts of town and in the countryside so were not affected as much.
9How many people died in 1832? How many people died in 1841?50,000 dead
50,000 dead
10Why was nothing done?Lassiez-Faire
11What is Lassiez-Faire?Where the government do nothing
12Why did the government do nothing?Believed that being poor was a choice.
13Why was nothing done by the citizens?Only affected working class and the poor, and they had no vote in the government, so there was no improvements made.