Public health problems in industrial towns
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- Public heath problems in industrial towns.
- Outbreaks of disease were common because of squalid living conditions.
- Tenements were overcrowded.
- Sewage contaminated drinking water.
- led to outbreaks of Cholera and Typhoid.
- Cholera epidemic in Wales.
- 1832 outbreak - Merthyr Tydfil 160 deaths.
- 1849 outbreak - Cardiff & Merthyr worst effected towns.
- Other towns affected were Carmarthen and Llanelli.
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