This would affect everyone who lived in that particular town. Also in the nineteenth century John Snow was interested in how cholera was spreading through drinking water. When he made this observation he discovered that people who had drunk water provided by the same water company were more likely to catch the disease than other people who drank water from a different company. He then plotted all of known cases of cholera onto a map and discovered that most of the people who fell ill were getting water from the same pump. This was because the water in the pump was contaminated from sewage from the river Thames.
As the reliable water sources shrank and they were forced to drink the contaminated water. This may have also spread diseases throughout the Colony. The results being more deaths, because of the water sources being contaminated by filth from the colonists. [Doc.B] Shows that there was a large time of drought from 1606-1612.This likely affected the growth of crops. The result was deaths most likely caused by lack of food.
Because of the improvements in sanitation and hygiene in the last 100 years, Cholera has been wiped out of England and much of the rest of the world3. John Snow (1813 – 1858) A member of the royal college of surgeons, also a member of the royal college of physicians he played a big part in discovering the cause of Cholera. At the time, it was assumed that cholera was airborne, but he did not believe the ‘miasma’ (bad air) theory. He argued that it entered the body through the mouth. He published these ideas in an essay ‘On the Mode of Communication of Cholera’ in 1849.
However I know from my own knowledge that the 19th century was a time of massive heath reforms in Britton. With this in mind I can start to see different aspects of the three sources, which might make them agree that cholera epidemics cause people to question public heath. Source 13, does not agree or disagree with the question, which does not make the source very useful. However there is a small passage about the effect that Cholera had at the very end of the source, it does say that Cholera got “attention from everyone, from all shades and all forms of opinion.” I know that in the early 19th century the government relied on the middle class for money and votes to stay in parliament. So if people from “all shades” where suddenly worried about Cholera then the government would have to start putting work into finding out the cause of Cholera.
There have been several reasons for the decline in death rate, and one of the reasons include the improved nutrition that the UK has achieved during the 1900s. McKeown argues that improved nutrition accounted for up to half the reduction in death rates, and better nutrition increased resistance to infection and illnesses. Multiple medical improvements also reduced the number of deaths in the UK. The improved medical knowledge, techniques and organisation after the 1950s helped in the decline of the death rate as the improvements included the introduction of antibiotics, immunisation against certain infections as well as blood transfusions, better maternity services and the introduction of the NHS in 1949. There has been another increase in improved medical practice as recently, bypass surgery and other similar developments have reduced heart disease and its related deaths by one third.
According to research, life expectancy rose and death rates began to fall, mostly in infants due to the improvement in sanitation and the provision of clean water, improvement on the council houses and the general improved standards of living. The social model believes that ill health is as a result of the inequalities in society and the life circumstances of the disadvantaged. Marxists believe that levels of illness differ in relation to social class, i.e. there is a high level of illness in poor areas because of poor nutrition, excessive drinking and lack of exercises, there is unequal distribution of NHS resources/ postcode lottery (the health care received depends on geographical location) e.g. South Wales is one of the deprived areas in the UK with fewer hospitals and doctors.
How far did public health improve in the years 1845-1945? Public health improved a great deal between the mid-19th and mid-20th century. This was due to three main factors: John Snow who worked to understand cholera, the Second World War which resulted in the NHS and the British government passing new laws like the 1866 Sanitary Act that literally cleaned up Britain. John Snow is known for ridding Britain of cholera, a deadly disease giving sufferers diarrhoea and making them vomit. At the time, it was deadly – the constant loss of fluids caused such severe dehydration that the patients often fell into comas and died.
The Nineteenth Century Timeline The First National Public Health Act 1848 During the ninteenth century industrialisation and the rapid growth of cities led to concerns about envionmnet problems such as poor housing, unclean water supplies, bad air and the impact of all these problems had on the health of the working population. Edwin Chadwick the member of the sanitary movement was an active campaigner on most public health issues including poor housing and working conditions.Chadwick presents an inquiry report to the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population to British Parliament, 1842 contained a mass of evidence linking environmental factor, poverty and ill health. to administer all sanitary matters it was recommended that establishment
Because of this surgery was very limited except in times of war. In 1867 a man called Joseph Lister ( later known as the father of antiseptic surgery) discovered a link between the lack of cleanliness in hospitals and the deaths after operations and devised a fine spray using carbolic acid which he used on and aroung the open wounds, this combined with the washing of hands greatly reduced the number of patients who contracted infections after surgery and led to a dramatic fall in fatalities. The evolution of healthcare throughout the years has been an ever changing process of social, political and economic history. Healthcare has evolved from a simple system of homecare remidies and physicians, most of them with little or no training, to the era of scientific medicine which we know today. In the later years of the nineteenth century, voluntary visiting associations started providing care in the general
: witch doctors, prayer, isolation, herbs and other non- traditional methods. The cost of paying for a doctor in early America, weighed heavy on whether a family would call on a doctor. Many people died or illnesses went without being adequately treated.Health care in early America looked nothing like today, but the issues surrounding access to healthcare are similar. The danger of diseases such as smallpox, measles, consumption, the common cold and the cost associated with its prevention or cure was at the forefront of many debates. Health epidemics forced early America to gravel with the question of the government’s role in the nation's health.