Health Sciences 3040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Public Health Laboratory, Venice, Population Health
30 Dec 2017
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Mortality was due to poor people being crowded together and improper sewage disposal. Clean water and regulations about wholesomeness of food -> resulted in biggest increase in life expectancy that we"ve ever seen. Infant mortality was really high at the time, montreal mid-19th century municipalities formed boards of health. They would hire doctors as these (untrained) just for the outbreak and then fire them when the outbreak was over. Gradually more access to science, more highly skilled workforce. Became much more sophisticated over time, and then expectations were much higher (people don"t accept anymore that an infecti ous disease outbreak will kill a lot of people) North battleford in the 90s - contamination of the water supply in sk. Walkerton in the 90s - e. coli leeched into water supply, massive outbreak and many people died. But during that time a lot more people died of tobacco smoking.
