Life During The Great Depression

The Great Depression was the worst period of money drought of all time. The Great Depression changed lives through jobs, health, and living conditions. The stock market crash took people into a bad world with no jobs what so ever. So what caused the stock market crash was when all the banks failed. When the banks went down almost everyone lost their jobs, they lost everything (history.com) . No one knew what to do since they had no money. They had no way to pay the people to work so they just had to shut down all the stores and jobs. Because they had no money to pay for their homes, food, etc. they just had to learn to survive the streets, but everyone worked together. When all of this took place, and people started to work together
Since people were living in poverty, they got sick very easily. They could not do anything about it depending on what they had ( cold , sore throat , etc. ) . If you had a cold you would not really need to go see a doctor, it’s not that severe. Doctors were pretty picky on what they treated because they weren’t getting paid as much as they should. The number one thing that went around was Polio. It was also one of the only things doctors treated. Polio was very severe and it could cause death. Since the doctors treated little to no illnesses , it caused the sick people to suffer (encyclopedia.com). Many families were struck by depression. The suffering and the death rates went up and are one of the reasons for depression. Not to mention the hospitals went downhill also. Since no one had the money, they just had to deal with their sickness at home (encyclopedia.com). Because they wouldn’t let people into the hospitals, the illnesses got around to the community. The americans started to lose life. If they would have just treated people for free the towns would not have lost as many lives and they would have just all got through it together. The health issues during this time were unbelievably