William Farr, an employee of the government’s General Register Office. Farr had rationalized that soil closer to sea level or near a riverbank would contain more organic waste, causing the surrounding air to become contaminated with miasmatas and to give off a sensorially unpleasant smell. The Daily Records, which accounted for all of the week’s deaths and the victim’s level of apartment, seemed to agree with Farr’s suggestion, calculating that more individuals died if they lived on lower levels rather than higher ones. But when supporters of the theory were confronted about why only certain individuals became ill from the stench, there was not a proven scientific reason. The miasma-believers turned to lifestyles of the diseased - if the individual was leading a good life then they would have been spared.
Many houses in York were demolished which initially caused outrage but it is now apparent that this could actually be seen as beneficial because more and more stone houses were replacing them. Improved harvests meant that people were healthier due to a better diet. Cesspits were lined with stone and were now emptied when they were full. The abbey of St Mary’s had a functional sewer and clean water facilities. Houses in the Norman era were built by professional carpenters instead of the home owners and were kept clean through sweeping.
Assignment 208 – Task A Ai: Four examples of accidents and illness that may occur? Travel Sickness – Travel sickness may occur on the bus/coach, as the movement of the bus. Travel sickness is a disturbed inner ear that’s caused by the repeated motion you must report any incidents to management to write in the daily records and fill out the accident book. Falls – Fall’s might happen when residents are climbing inn and out of the vehicle, walking up and down steps and around the place we are visiting. Cuts and Bruises – Cuts and bruises may occur while in the vehicle such as bumping legs and arms on chairs and door if the resident is a bit unbalanced and while going to the toilets on doors.
(http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/lawsguidance/cwa/tmdl/glossary.cfm#section303d) Water quality research is very important to our society. This will help us protect our nations water systems, help us achieve a total maximum daily load of waste allocations on pollution. This will help sustain the ecological processes to support vegetation, fish populations, birdlife and our wetlands. (http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/standards/imp.cfm) The reason why this experiment is being done is to test my water system, and to determine the quality for life. The more we know about our water the better off we will be.
The population structure has changed due to the introduction of health and safety and health care, as there has been a decline in dangerous jobs as health and safety rulings have stops man working in such conditions, also the NHS was established in 1948, since then free health care has been conducted, and due to advancements in technology medical treatment has improved also the sanitation of hospitals and equipment is a lot safer as the bacterial infections are now understood. Also vaccinations are now common in the UK as vulnerable seen as vulnerable are protected from a virus or bacterial
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. Public health measures and environmental improvements are more reasons for the falling death rate since 1900. There have been improvements in housing (including better ventilation, and less overcrowded houses), improved sewage disposal methods which helped increase the level of hygiene in areas and purer drinking water which raised the health of citizens. Also, the Clean Air Acts reduced pollution which impacted on the number of deaths. Other social changes which are more reasons for the decline
Decisions in Paradise Part 1 Sylvia Lopez MGT350 January 16, 2012 Bruce Fanger Decisions in Paradise Part 1 The island of Kava has been through many disasters yet does not give up. Toppy-T will be building a new warehouse in Kava. The new warehouse will offer many residents in Kava an opportunity to work. Many natural disasters have erased many of the job opportunities many people in Kava had. Toppy-T is dedicated to helping better the island of Kava by offering them job opportunities and t-shirts at low prices.
Unskilled workers fared poorly in the early U.S. economy, receiving as little as half the pay of skilled craftsmen, artisans, and mechanics. About 40 percent of the workers in the cities were low-wage laborers and seamstresses in clothing factories, often living in dismal circumstances. With the rise of factories, children, women, and poor immigrants were employed to run the machines. Industrialization of the New South was a major change to the economy, after the civil war the agrarian lifestyle was abandoned. Due to the substantial industrial growth labor unions were formed to protect the workers and desire for better wages plus safe working environments (AP&P, pg 248-251).
The Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the advent of gross urbanization of factory towns and cities. Due to advancements in areas such as textiles and machinery, many people flocked from the country sides of Europe (particularly Britain) to cities where they sought work was factory operators and machinists. To accommodate the tremendous influx of people, cheap and cramped housing was built, with communal wells provided for water. However, as there were few facilities for removing sewage, and the living conditions were deplorable, disease became rampant. Typhoid fever, cholera, tuberculosis, smallpox and rabies were infectious agents which followed the bubonic plague, and found easy hosts in the unclean slums
(U.S. EPA, 2005,para 12) The reason for using these disinfectants in the water systems like chlorine and chloramine is because they are effective and inexpensive and as it travels through the pipes it continues to disinfect traveling to the homes and businesses. (Flouride, 2012, para4).Now knowing this fact is the reason why the tap water has a distinguish taste to it and after a while traveling through the pipelines the lines tends to get rusty and gets into the homes and businesses and that is bad for the health. (Water and Health series, Bottled water basics, 2005,para,