INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
New machines invented
The steam engine
Improvements in transport and roads were needed because the factories were producing more goods
The steam engine
Created bigger because people moved for work at the factories
Better roads
Farming machines invented
People worried they would lose their jobs
Canal systems
Riots started eg farm workers hated the threshing machines that did the work of several men
Chadwick
Believed in Miasma
Improved health to help workers
John Snow
Linked Cholera to contaminated water
He studied an outbreak and realised that all the victims were drinking from the same water pump
He removed the handle and the outbreak ended
This led to the water and sewage system being improved
Cholera - Deadly infection that is waterborne and airborne
Scourge - Great suffering
Squalor - extremely dirty
Wretched - Unhappy
Sceptre - Royal wand/staff
Stagnant - Water with no flow
Putrid - Decaying/rotitng
Diseases - Typhoid, smallpox and TB
How would these spread in a city?
Typhoid - sewers
Tuberculosis - Living conditions
Smallpox - Living conditions
Cholera - water supply
Sewers need to be flushed with water
Better living conditions and food for the poor = better workers
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Joseph Bazalgette designed and built the London sewer system because of the Great Stink
This took the waste away from the city and prevent Cholera from returning