Cleanliness In The Nineteenth Century

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Living arrangements in the nineteenth century were crowded and filthy causing unsanitary living conditions which were prone to breed bacteria and disease, particularly cholera. The most common means of communicating cholera has been through unclean water. One of the most important methods of protection against the spread of disease is through cleanliness, such as maintaining personal hygiene, preparing meals in a sanitary space and avoid overcrowding by having an appropriate amount of space to conduct your daily living with separate living spaces for livestock. Cleanliness was precisely what was missing in Russia, the United States and in England in the nineteenth century. Cholera ravaged territories and placed unforgettable and untreatable fear within those who knew its name. Medical technology, specifically, microbiology and the development of bacteriology as a science was in its early stages as misconceptions replaced science. The common folk, government officials and medical professionals, a bacterium was an unlikely cause of cholera. Preconceived ideas and misconceptions reproduced faster than the bacterium Vibrio Cholerae could multiply in the intestinal canal of its victim. During the health response to cholera, with the help of John Snow, society learned the disease is spread by a bacterium that passes from the sick to the healthy, not by other inclined beliefs such as miasmas. John Snow’s work accelerated the once stagnant beliefs and ideas of society in the nineteenth century and pushed government officials to support epidemiologists in rationalizing their …show more content…

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