In 1842 Chadwick wrote his Great Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring population. He noticed that people lived in dirty, overcrowded conditions which caused illness, ending in people becoming too sick to work and a higher tax spending on helping them. Due to this Chadwick introduced a set of solutions which would help improve public health, because he suggested that sewers should be improved, refuse should be removed, water provided should be clean and medical officers should be appointed to check each area. This helped because with an improved sewerage system human waste would not be mixed the water supply which would see a fall in cholera and other related diseases. His Great Report helped the introduction of the Public Health Act in 1848.
During the 1854 cholera breakout in London, many factors contributed to the resistance to innovation regarding the causation of this disease. Class prejudices, folklore, and the general acceptance of the miasmas theory created a resistance so strong that thousands of Londoners died before the Board of Public Health finally accepted the possibility that cholera was being spread through drinking water. John Snow, a highly acclaimed anesthesiologist of the time, developed a theory that suggested a possible reason for the sudden wave of illness throughout the streets of London. After countless days walking the disease-stricken streets of south London, many hours spent pondering the day’s research, and personal intuition that told him that problems with the digestive system
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.
These new changes in the public health system had a vast effect on the working classes and their health, as they were more likely to contract diseases such as TB due to their poorly ventilated housing and were less likely to have access to clean water and proper sewage systems to remove waste from their homes. As more people began to move into cities, where in 1851 over 50% of the population lived in urban areas, overcrowding and disease became a major problem in Britain. An increase in public health initiatives had a widespread influence on the working class life from home health, food safety, and clean water. There were many health problems that the working class faced exclusively, such as milk for babies. Mothers were more likely to have a job in a working class family, so the mother would have to give the baby bottled milk instead of breast milk, which was very unsafe and not regulated.
Case Study Risk of Infectious and Communicable Diseases Cholera, a gastrointestinal infection caused by toxigenic bacterium, Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1 or O139, can cause acute, severe, watery diarrhea, dehydration, and death. Known risk factors for cholera outbreaks include lack of access to safe drinking water, contaminated food, inadequate sanitation, and large numbers of refugees or internally displaced persons. The 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti following a severe earthquake and flooding underscored the vulnerability of populations due to poor sanitation, a strained public health infrastructure, and large numbers of displaced people. The earthquake in January 2010, damaged drinking water treatment facilities and piped water distribution systems throughout Haiti, and displaced an estimated 2.3 million people, the flooding that occurred later in the year exacerbated the problems. As of mid-November 2010, the Haitian Ministry of
Despite the fact that the infectious diseases previously mentioned endangered the lives of many children during the 1950s, poliomyelitis was of the highest concern and held the greatest amount of attention amongst the population. “The germ theory combined with the rapid growth of cities in the late nineteenth century to fuel a growing concern with cleanliness and health” (Oshinsky 29). As a result, polio tended to effect the middle and upper-class neighborhoods, in addition to areas with good sanitation, rather than poverty stricken communities with poor sanitation. “As the nation cleaned up, new problems arose. There was now a smaller chance that people would come in contact with dangerous microbes early in life, when the infection was milder and maternal antibodies offered temporary protection,” (Oshinsky 31) resulting in more appearances of polio.
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“Industrial Britain was hit by an outbreak of cholera in 1831-32, 1848-49, 1854 and 1867.” ("Diseases in industrial cities in the Industrial Revolution" 1). Commentary: The Industrial Revolution saw an outbreak of diseases, including cholera, which infected humans, livestock, and pets. Cholera was so prevalent and feared in Industrial Age Britain that it earned the nickname “King Cholera”. “The cause was simple – sewage was being allowed to come into contact with drinking water and contaminating it. As many people used river water as their source of drinking water, the disease spread with ease.” ("Diseases in industrial cities in the Industrial Revolution" 1).
TITILE: TUBERCULOSIS IN ETHNIC MINORITIES AND INEQUALITIES IN HEALTH. MODULE CODE: HEALTH INEQUALITIES. STUDENT I.D: DUE DATE: 22-11-11 WORD COUNT: 1500. STATEMENT Tuberculosis (TB) remains an important public health problem in industrialized countries. The majority of cases occur in minority groups, particularly recently arrived immigrants from countries with high endemicity who often congregate in deprived communities within wealthy cities.
The situation to Donora was extreme, but it reflected a trend. Air pollution had become a harsh consequence of industrial growth across the country and the world. One of these organizations named The Clean Air Task Force (CATF), supports that Air Pollution isn’t good for our world, and the CATF is trying to reduce Air Pollution happening. The CATF was organized by more than two dozen state and local national and public organizations. The CATF says, “In 2005, they cut 60% cuts in health and environmental pollutants from all these plants.” (CATF- “About