WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Increase in sanitation related technologies
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Disease such as outbreaks of cholera & typhoid
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Large numbers leaving the city
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a boom in te recycling industry
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Detailed explanation-1: -Many diarrheal diseases spread through unsafe water and sanitation. These conditions, along with poor hygiene, can also cause the deadly diseases cholera and typhoid fever.
Detailed explanation-2: -A person can get cholera by drinking water or eating food contaminated with cholera bacteria. In an epidemic, the source of the contamination is usually the feces of an infected person that contaminates water or food. The disease can spread rapidly in areas with inadequate treatment of sewage and drinking water.
Detailed explanation-3: -Poor sanitation is linked to transmission of diarrhoeal diseases such as cholera and dysentery, as well as typhoid, intestinal worm infections and polio.
Detailed explanation-4: -Contaminated water supplies are the main source of cholera infection. The bacterium can be found in: Surface or well water. Contaminated public wells are frequent sources of large-scale cholera outbreaks.
Detailed explanation-5: -Natural and man-made disasters which produce overcrowding, a scarcity of safe drinking water, improper elimination of human waste, and the contamination of food during or after its preparation are risk factors for the spread of the disease.