GCSE; AQA; Medicine and the Industrial Revolution - AQA Cholera epidemics. Urban populations increased rapidly in the 19th century. Diseases such as cholera, typhus and typhoid spread due to poor ...

Much like COVID-19 today, cholera exacerbated economic and social inequality. In the early 1830s, the Industrial Revolution drew large numbers of poor workers to Paris, ...

Cholera was once one of the most dreaded diseases in crowded early industrial cities. It claimed thousands of lives, sweeping away whole families in one epidemic after another.

A 19th Century mass grave in Pennsylvania could contain the remains of up to 120 Irish immigrants, researchers have said.The site, at Downingtown, is 11 miles west of Duffy's Cut, where in 2009 ...

Society figured out how to manage the waste produced by the Industrial Revolution. We must do the same thing with the Internet today. by Judy Estrin and Sam Gill January 13, 2019 January 9, 2022 ...

The lack of clean drinking water in the towns of England during the industrial revolution led to repeated cholera epidemics – a deadly waterborne disease.