Tuberculosis and Typhus Fever: Diseases of Class in 19th-Century Englan

terabyte and Typhus Fever Diseases of Class in 19th-Century England Missing Works CitedAlthough more prevalent amongst the workings class, tuberculosis and typhus fever were strikeed by all populations in Victorian England. mint of the upper and middle classes could afford treatment while the hapless were frequently subjected to unsanitary, ailment-ridden living conditions. Charity schools were super C places of infection due to inedible intellectual nourishment and a vulnerability to contagion, i.e., the necessity of sharing beds and drinking from a joint cup. F.B. Smith confirms the increased likelihood of disease within charity schools in his book The Retreat of tebibyte. He states Charity school children displayed above average out rates (of tuberculosis) even though the badly affected individuals usually were excluded (7). Tuberculosis and typhus fever outbreaks, increased significantly in the nineteenth coke due to overcrowding, poor housing conditions, low wages and standards of nutrition, ignorance, and lack of impressive medical treatment. Tuberculosis is marked by symptoms such as a hollow cough, an emaciated body, nightly weats and daily intermittent fevers. Tuberculosis was common amongst working classes because it was contracted through pestilent, infected air, manifesting itself in places surrounded by swampy land. Geography plays an important role in the transmission of tuberculosis. The working classes could not afford to live in areas that were free of the epidemic. The upper classes did contract consumption, although they sought the medicine of the day which often brought them to health. The most popular remediation was a sea voyage in a warm climate, just now also pure air and the most nutritious food were encouraged. Accordi... ...the poor were supposed to be upgraded by industrial innovations but, on the other hand, partnership waste and inadequate working conditions, exploitation, took a severe toll on the very people t his revolution was supposed to help. The mass presence of disease was due to the degradation of society. Poor conditions of various institutions, a side meat of the revolution, presented a dangerous risk of exposure for lower, working class families. Tuberculosis and typhus fever were painful, contagious, and long-lasting epidemics that killed people of all classes. Naturally, the lower classes suffered the most. The upper classes reaped the financial benefits from this new urban society, while the working classes were subjected to filthy, disease-ridden atmosphere. The impoverished consecrate always been the disadvantaged, but in 19th century England, they paid with their lives.