Industrial Revolution Diseases

Question 1

Name 4 disease that spread during the Industrial Revolution.

Answer 1

• Typhoid
• Tuberculosis
• Cholera
• Smallpox

Question 2

What is Typhoid?

Answer 2

The typhoid germ lived in urine and faeces. Sometimes sewage would contaminate water or food and pass on the germs. This disease could also be carried by flies which
landed on food.

Question 3

What is tuberculosis?

Answer 3

This affects a person’s lungs and gave them a terrible cough. It was passed by people passing germs to others by coughing and sneezing

Question 4

What is cholera?

Answer 4

Caused by a germ that lives in contaminated water and killed 90% of people who caught it. There were many epidemics of cholera in the 1800s.

Question 5

What is smallpox?

Answer 5

A rash turns into huge pus-filled blisters all over the body. When the blisters fall off they leave deep scars. A vaccine was created for this in 1793 and by 1853 the government
made it compulsory to receive the vaccination