Disease and Treatments in the Victorian Era
Diseases and Treatments in the Victorian Era
By: Will Kraemer
September 28, 2011
Outline I- Introduction: the thoughts and ideas about diseases. II- Body: living conditions/ why they got sick 1. How the filth and grime led to diseases 2. Home-remedies 3. Death III- Body: Diseases 1. Cholera 2. Tuberculosis 3. Typhus IV- Body: Treatments and medical discoveries 1. Why they started caring about sanitation and hygiene 2. How they cured it before medicine 3. Discoveries V- Conclusion: close it off restate thesis. Wrap up
In my fifteen years of living, I have been vaccinated numerous times for all types of diseases; Polio, Measles, Mumps, and a few others. Immunization wasn’t available for the Victorians, and certain diseases, although different than the ones I was protected against, claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Victorians. The leading cause of death in the Victorian Era (1837-1901) was infectious diseases. About a third of all these deaths were those of children under the age of five. They didn’t have the healthcare we have today; they barely even knew what was killing them and making them sick. The main diseases were Cholera, Tuberculosis, and Typhus. These diseases not only killed people but affected the lives of their family and kids. If the father got sick then there wouldn’t be any money or food for them to survive on. For example, Cholera, a terrible disease caused by bad sanitation, killed millions of people in the 19th century.
Many Victorians died because of horrible diseases. Most victims were children under age five because their immune systems weren’t fully established yet. If a child also got the measles his/her immune system would be more vulnerable to infections that cause diseases. It was even worse in crowded living quarters because it was hard to isolate the victim. In the impecunious parts of cities, the mortality rate of children was even higher due to the
By: Will Kraemer
September 28, 2011
Outline I- Introduction: the thoughts and ideas about diseases. II- Body: living conditions/ why they got sick 1. How the filth and grime led to diseases 2. Home-remedies 3. Death III- Body: Diseases 1. Cholera 2. Tuberculosis 3. Typhus IV- Body: Treatments and medical discoveries 1. Why they started caring about sanitation and hygiene 2. How they cured it before medicine 3. Discoveries V- Conclusion: close it off restate thesis. Wrap up
In my fifteen years of living, I have been vaccinated numerous times for all types of diseases; Polio, Measles, Mumps, and a few others. Immunization wasn’t available for the Victorians, and certain diseases, although different than the ones I was protected against, claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Victorians. The leading cause of death in the Victorian Era (1837-1901) was infectious diseases. About a third of all these deaths were those of children under the age of five. They didn’t have the healthcare we have today; they barely even knew what was killing them and making them sick. The main diseases were Cholera, Tuberculosis, and Typhus. These diseases not only killed people but affected the lives of their family and kids. If the father got sick then there wouldn’t be any money or food for them to survive on. For example, Cholera, a terrible disease caused by bad sanitation, killed millions of people in the 19th century.
Many Victorians died because of horrible diseases. Most victims were children under age five because their immune systems weren’t fully established yet. If a child also got the measles his/her immune system would be more vulnerable to infections that cause diseases. It was even worse in crowded living quarters because it was hard to isolate the victim. In the impecunious parts of cities, the mortality rate of children was even higher due to the
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