Diseases & Killer Conditions
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- Created on: 11-10-22 10:19
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- Diseases & Killer Conditions
- Tuberculosis
- Greatest killer.
- TB
- Lungs were attacked.
- Affected those who had been poorly fed and were under nourished.
- Affected those that lived in dirty and damp homes.
- Believed that TB killed 1/3 of those who died in Britain between 1800 and 1850.
- Typhoid
- A disease also found in dirty water.
- Weakness
- Stomach pain
- Headache
- Diarrhea or Constipation
- Coughing
- Loss of appetite.
- Cholera
- Nicknames King Cholera
- Brought to Britain by soldiers returning from India in 1832
- Victims sometimes lost 1/2 a litre of fluid an hour because of diarrhoea and vomiting.
- Spread through infected drinking water.
- Influenza
- Extreme Illness
- Similar to a very bad flu.
- Spread through industrial cities.
- Spread so quickly because of overcrowding.
- People at that time didn't understand about germs and viruses or how they spread.
- Tuberculosis
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