PHSC 401 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Lemuel Shattuck, Endangerment, Staten Island
31 Jan 2017
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Mortality rates approached those of the plague. Cholera came as a sudden, overwhelming attack - taking over the body within a few hours loss of body fluids collapsed the tissues. Some believed it traveled through person to person contact. Villerme: poverty, not environmental miasma was the true cause of disease. Pointed out the human problems of the industrial system. Public health and avoidance of disease were social problems not environmental ones remedy: educate the poor into better habits. Shattuck: found a moral cause, disease was a penalty for deviation from moral behavior. Could be avoided by a regiment of godliness and cleanliness. Proclaimed firth and bad ventilation are the causes of disease. Key: provision of integrated water and sewer systems. Prevention of disease: responsibility of engineers not physicians: what impact did each of the following figures have on sanitary reform: john snow, Different water supplies affected immediate atmospheres of the two adjoining areas differently.
