HIST 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intercolonial Railway, Tuberculous Cervical Lymphadenitis, Cholera
21 Sep 2017
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Historical context, 1763-1867: conquest of new france, 1763. Immigration: 1800-1850, 25,000 40,0000 immigrants enter canada annually, mostly upper canada. Industrialization and health: 19th century period of industrialization, urbanization. Increased human density: cities (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t respo(cid:374)d to rapid ur(cid:271)a(cid:374)izatio(cid:374) Increased levels of detritus: human and animal sewage entering water supplies, accumulation of stagnant water, housing and population density, demands lead to higher rents, lower standards of living. Increased contact between human beings greater possibility of infection: population growth of major cities, quadrupling of population in three generations. Industrial run off lakes and rivers: no environmental protection agencies factories dump run off and waste into water that is used for drinking and bathing. Modes of disease transmission: modes of transmission, fecal-oral route. Impact of cholera led to enactment of public health acts in britain and canada, c. 1848/9 and 1866: statistical investigations into the social conditions of the disease outbreaks.
