HIST 3303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Early Modern Europe, Diarrhea, Cholera
18 Aug 2016
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Module 3: early epidemics and the creation of the public health state. Paper deadline-friday oct. 2, 2015 5 pm bb. Drafts due wed sept 30 by 5 pm email. Charity care of the poor in ny. Wrote assessments of sanitary conditions of the city. Identified problems people were living in. brought awareness to the problems of living in the filth. Believed poverty was what led people to live in filth and also immorality which led to epidemic diseases breaking out. His ideas were not universally accepted during this time. Believed immorality of the working class is what made them poor which led them to live in filth causes disease: central theories and practices of the sanitarian movement in the u. s and europe in the. Epidemic diseases like fevers were caused by filth and miasmas. To prevent epidemic diseases, get rid of filth and improve ventilation.
