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faster because of an element which is key to
life, “water”, cholera started spreading because
of this same element, it started spreading
because the people were very unsanitary, they
started drinking and leaving their wastes in
the same water. Cholera was transferred through
wáter.Cholera entered the body through wáter.
2 Sanitary and over population.
Most of the health problems were caused by the
sanitary problems people had. Typhus
Typhus is a disease that causes
hacking, dry cough, Headache, Joint and
muscle pain, Nausea, Vomiting. Typhus
long endemic in Ireland, reached epidemic
proportions when thousands, weakened by
malnutrition due to successive crop failures,
became victims of the disease. This led to an
epidemic in 1846. Epidemic Typhus, known
as “Jail fever” or “Famine fever” is louse
borne and occurred when the debilitated,
infested with lice, were huddled together
for warmth and shelter. An outbreak in
England in the 16th Century killed 10% of
the population and during Napoleon's retreat
from Moscow more soldiers died from Typhus
than were killed by the Russians.