Diseases

Diseases also had a major impact on Great Britain, since the use of machinery was a drastic change. The process of industrialization led to diseases, as typhoid, tuberculosis, cholera, diphtheria, scrofula, among others. These diseases were the cause of many deaths during the Industrial Revolution. As the cities became more populated, the problem became worse.

Typhoid		Causes	Effects
It is contracted from contaminated food and drinking water, and from infected shellfish taken from sewage-contaminated sea and river waters.	Social	Cities were growing and so was the population, people often drank water from the rivers, and industries were contaminating the whole environment.	A lot of people died, but also people got more resistant to those diseases after some time and there were now ways of treating typhoid and other diseases.
	Political	The political leaders didn’t take care of the healthy problems in the factories and they allowed owners to keep them in bad conditions and factories were polluting the environment.	By 1840s there were some changes in legislations and new laws were made to make the companies and factories more conscious about the environment and regulate themselves to pollute less.
	Economical	As the economy was growing better for the more advanced nations, they kept using resources without control and making new factories to increase their production and income, so more factories were made and there was more pollution making more people get sick and so on.	Companies were asked to make changes in their filtration and storage techniques. Industries moved to more rural areas. Economy kept getting better, but not as much as in the beginning.

Cholera		Causes	Effects
It is contracted from contaminated food and water containing the “Vibrio Cholerae”	Social	People used rivers as a source of drinking water, so the disease spread with ease; factories of all kinds used water energy and contaminated rivers.	Epidemics like the ones of 1831-1832 and 1848-1849 that broke out in Great Britain, usually affecting more poor areas, were a lot of people died.
	Political	They saw the economy as a way to obtaining more power in their countries and prevail more in power, so they didn’t care of the contamination they were creating.	They made some little changes in constitutions and legislations, so companies took more care of the environmental factor.
	Economical	Factories were allowed to throw stuff like sewage to the rivers, so they contaminated the water. This was allowed because people’s only concern was economy and not nature.	The economy remained almost the same; the only thing that change was that the factories make changes in their infrastructure, so they harmed less the environment than before.

In this cartoon we can see that "Death" is dispensing the water, infected with cholera.

“It’s symbolizing that in drinking the water they were basically drinking death (as the cartoon says it’s “Death’s Dispensary”. The pumps were dispensing death), and that they were doing it naively. Even if they did know though, it’s not like they actually had much of a choice.”
“this cartoon suggests that the water being pumped would have some drastic effect on the people that drink it practically to do with life and death, but the people wouldn’t know it.”
“The cartoon suggests that the water was passing out diseases that would kill people. That is the reason why Death is pumping the water out.”