More animal species are becoming endangered or extinct as a result of global warming.” “The carbon emissions, pollution and human health problems that have resulted directly from the Industrial Revolution’s accomplishments have only been disastrous for the world environment. For example the increase of the production in the textile industry, iron and steel and the steam power. As a result, many people died cause of too much smoke spread in the air. Another example according to the reading, air and water pollution came from coal burning, as well as most stages in the production of metals and basic chemicals. Moreover, “The advent of the steam locomotive and railroad also saw the start of major pollution caused by big business, which is all too often seen today.
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.
This parasite was not an immediate threat to healthy people of Scotchwood but to the people already sick with diseases causing weakened immune systems. Anderson et al v. Pacific Gas and Electric and Jones v. Scotchwood both dealt with cases having to do with water contamination causing harm to citizens. A big difference between the two is that Scotchwood did not do anything really negligent and tried to make all citizens of their town aware of the parasites in the water. Pacific Gas and Electric dumped all the chemicals secretly and illegally into ponds with full knowledge they were contaminating the water they were dumping into. PG&E dumped so many gallons of chemical waste into the water that the hexavalent chromium 6 levels were 10 times the legal limit in the water.
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.
When sailors came to the Americas, they introduced diseases such as; small pox, measles, mumps, whooping cough, influenza, chicken pox, and typhus. Small pox, a disease originated from livestock, had the most devastating effect on the Native American population. It is estimated that small and the other diseases wiped out about 90 percent of the population. Although disease was exchanged to Eurasia and Africa as well, it did not have as much as a disastrous effect as disease in the Americas. Because the disease wiped out so much of the population, the Columbian exchange inadvertently changed many economic aspects of the Americas.
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
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.
When the fleas had their fill they would hop off the rat and onto their next victim, most likely a human, infecting them with the plague. The plague reached London around 1348 and people were dying rapidly. Horrible living conditions made the plague easier and faster to spread. This allowed the plague to evolve and come about in two different ways.
The industrialization of Manchester was successful for the modernization of man, yet its growth also raised many concerns in society. The health issues were one of the major problems raised from the growth of Manchester, since the spread of disease throughout the city was extremely common as presented in Document 6, “The annual loss of life from filth and bad ventilation is greater than the loss from death in modern wars”. This shows how the rapid growth of Manchester created unsafe areas that easily allowed illness’s to be spread. Also, the physical conditions in the factories caused many problems for the workers’ health. A French women’s rights advocate, Flora Tristan, said that in the factories, “They (the workers) are all wizened, sickly and emaciated, their bodies thin and frail, their limbs feeble, their complexions pale, their eyes dead… O God!
Public health practices in the United States have largely focused on sanitary regulations, the study of epidemics and vital statistics led to the growth of urban centers for the purpose of commerce and industry, unsanitary living conditions in closely populated areas, inadequately methods of sewerage and garbage disposal. limited access to clean water and long work hours in unsafe conditions led to periodic epidemics of cholera, smallpox, typhoid, tuberculosis, yellow fever and other diseases. These outbreaks led to demanding efforts to protect the public. Due to the outbreak of yellow fever in 1793 in Philadelphia the national capital moved out of Philadelphia, due to the outbreak this provoked the city to develop the first board of health