How did changes in urbanization and increased population density affect the incidence of disease and epidemics in the nineteenth century? How did this affect overall population growth?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Changes in population demographics
1. Increase in density and urbanization
a. cities of the period were ill planned and poorly equipped with
drainage and sanitation
b. urban plagues
1. cholera and dysentery: contaminated water
2. typhus: spread by body lice
a. emerged in areas that had not had it before
b. populations uprooted and transferred from countryside to town
often suffered nutritionally
1. food supply was not properly organized and regulated
2. polluted and nutritionally inadequate food
3. tuberculosis: infected milk
B. Affects on population growth
1. "age of plague" did not return
2. new diseases were not generalized or lethal enough to really check
population growth
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