Health Issues

Guide Questions:

1. What are the major health issues in London?
2. Are sanitary conditions getting better or worse at the present (1840's)?
3. What illnesses are prevalent in London and what might be spreading them?
4. What differences are there in the health issues between the lower class and the upper class?

General health and life expectancy
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/healthov.html

Nutrition
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health8.html

Pregnancy and Childbirth
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health6.html

Nineteenth-Century Views of Blindness and Deafness
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/bronte/cbronte/sharman10.html

Wages and Quality of Life
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health9.html

Report on Sanitary Conditions in 1842
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/chadwick2.html

Victorian Technology
http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/technolov.html

Ages of Technology
http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/sci3.html

Science and Technology Timeline
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/science.html

Victorian London
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ITlondon.htm

Food in Factories
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRfood.factory.htm

Factory Pollution
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRpollution.htm

Deformities
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRdeformities.htm

Rural Hygiene - What was hygiene like in the country?
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/nightingale-rural.html

Victorian Medicine
http://www.geocities.com/victorianmedicine/entire.html