Without a germ theory of disease, people did not take precautions to prevent the spread of infections. But the Industrial Revolution contained the seeds of a complete reversal of the infant ...

Diseases that we easily treat today could ... it involved people making cloth in their own homes. Before the Industrial Revolution, life had changed very little for hundreds of years.

The Industrial Revolution is considered to be one of the ... unsanitary living conditions that led to the fast spreading of diseases in those areas. The sharp increase in the number of factories ...