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The 19th century saw great improvements in health and medicine - Do you agree?
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The 19th century saw great Improvements in health and medicine. Do you agree? Medicine is getting better through time as there were many discoveries such as the smallpox and Pasteur's germ theory, but just because medicine was improving it doesn't mean that health was improving. Health, hygiene and medicine are very important but in the 19th century health wasn't that important as people didn't know that pollution and germs caused infections and diseases. I disagree that the 19th century saw improvements in health as the population kept on increasing and houses were built closer together, this caused people and places to become more crowded. Conditions in the countryside were becoming as bad as in the towns. Bad water supplies, inadequate drains, damp houses, over crowding, and indifference to rubbish all helped to spread disease. Diarrhoea, typhus and the dreaded typhoid and cholera sometimes ravaged cottages as severely as they did the...
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