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MARCH 2014

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: DISORDERS
RELATED TO INDUSTRIALIZATION
History
By Cindy Jiménez and Sofía Benavides

The
 Industrial
 Revolution
  was
  a
  time
 in
  the

19 th
  century
  where
  the
  largest
  social
  and

technological
  transformation
  took
  place.
  However,

innovation
  and
 technological
 development
 does
 not

tell
  the
  whole
  story;
  Unemployment
  and
  other

miseries
 of
  industrial
 work
 have
  produced
 some
  of

the
  most
 miserable
  pages
  of
  modern
  history.

  The

industrial
  cities
 were
  awful;
  they
 had
 contaminated

water
 supplies,
 a
  total
  lack
 of
 sanitary
 facilities
 and

a
  terrible
  incidence
  of
  infant
  mortality.
  It
  can
  be

said
  that
  in
  the
  19th
  century
  little
  attention
  to

personal
 hygiene
  were
  provided.
  This
 is
 the
  reason

of
 the
 spread
 of
 too
 many
 diseases,
 such
 as:

food,
  liquid
  or
 scent
  contaminated
  by
 the
  waste
  or

urine
  of
  infected
  people.
  When
  the
  bacteria
  is

consumed
  it
  travels
  through
  the
  digestive
  system

then
  into
  the
  blood,
  once
  inside
  the
  blood
  it
  can

carry
  the
  bacteria
  in
  to
  other
  organs
  and
  end
  up

killing
 you.
 This
 started
 to
 be
 a
 big
 problem
 because

at
  that
 time
  people
  had
  no
 hygiene
  at
  all,
  and
 they

had
  no
  idea
  this
 was
 causing
  many
 of
  the
  diseases.

Typhoid
  is
 very
  similar
 to
  Cholera
  in
 many
 ways,
 it

was
 less
 common
 but
 equally
 dangerous.

Cholera
During
  the
  Industrial
  Revolution
  the
  waters
  were

very
  dirty
  and
  contaminated.
  The
  main
  source
  of

spread
  of
  the
  cholera
  bacteria
  is
  the
  ingestion
  of

contaminated
  water
  where
  waste
  is
  discharged.
  A

bacterium
 called
 Vibrio
 Cholerae
  produces
 Cholera,

this
  bacteria,
  that
  belongs
  into
  the
  pathogenic

microorganisms,
 lies
 in
  the
 water
 and
 is
 formed
 due

to
 the
  wastes
 that
  are
 discharged
  into
 it.
 This
 water

can
  be
 used
  for
 drinking
 or
  food
 washing;
 so
 at
  the

moment
  you
  ingested
  the
  water
  or
  food,
  the

bacteria
  quickly
  infected
  the
  small
  intestine.
  Some

of
  the
  main
  symptoms
  of
  this
  disease
  are
  watery

diarrhea
  and
  vomiting,
  leading
  to
  dehydration.

Cholera
  was
  one
  of
  the
  main
  causes
  of
  children’s

mortality
 back
 in
 the
 19th
 century.

Tuberculosis
Mycobacterium
  tuberculosis,
  also
  known
  as

Tuberculosis,
  caused
  30%
  of
  deaths
  in
  Europe

during
  the
  Industrial
  Revolution.
  Due
  to
  the

overcrowding
  in
  the
  cities
  is
  that
  Tuberculosis

spread
  the
  way
  it
  did.

  The
  disease
  was
  spread

through
  air;
  only
 infected
  people
  could
  spread
  the

disease
  through
  sneeze,
  cough,
  or