The Health and Disease Team

Lucía Régules 

Mayfer Lozano 

Kassandra Nicanor

Carina Vásquez 

History Class

The Conclusion

We can say, that now a days the diseases that spread during the Industrial Revolution, are still round here; like the Influenza that attacked in our city very strong a few years ago, and lung cancer that has always been presented for causes like cigarette or chemical smoke.

But, thanks to the better hygiene and medication that is presented now a days, there are more probabilities for a person to overcome the disease than during those times. So, in order to prevent all the horrible deaths that occurred during the Industrial Revolution, we should take care of our hygiene, be aware of what we inhale, and have a healthy diet and disinfectant.

  

                                               

The Diseases

The next diseases we are going to fully describe, are Lung Cancer and Influenza, which appeared during the Industrial Revolution. 

What is lung cancer? It is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells. These cells don’t develop healthy lung tissue and they don’t carry out the functions of normal lung cells. They form tumors when they grow and this interferes with the function of the lung.

Cells in our body contain deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and when a cell matures it divides into two new cells and our DNA gets duplicated. Scientists have found that it takes a series of mutations which means an error on the cell’s DNA to create a lung cancer cell. These mutations are caused because of environmental factors, like cigarette smoke and other exposure to gases. Cancer can be either primary or secondary. Primary is when the cancer starts in the lungs, and it is considered secondary when it travels from another part of the body to the lungs.

The main symptoms to lung cancer are bronchitis, or pain in the chest, shoulder or back. Some other symptoms are shortness of breath, coughing up blood or mucus, between others. These symptoms might take years to develop and they may not appear until the disease is very advanced. This cancer can spread to several parts in the body that could be lymph nodes, liver, brain, bones and adrenal glands.

Another of the common diseases was Influenza, it is a caused by RNA virus and it is consider as an infection. A human influenza virus evolves by one of these mechanisms. 1) antigenic shift; that is a genetic re-assortment between a non-human and a human virus in a non-human host 2) antigenic drift; that is an accumulation of mutations that will make easier the evasion of the host immune response.

The symptoms of this disease are fever, sore throat, muscle pain, chills, couching and discomfort. Influenza can cause pneumonia that is very dangerous in kids and elderly. It also produces nausea and vomiting. It is transmitted through the air by sneezes or coughs, because aerosols are created with containing the virus. It can also be transmitted by direct contact.

Influenza has been spread around the world and now there are seasonal epidemics that result in thousands of deaths every year. 

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Causes and Effects

During the Industrial Revolutions, lung cancer and influenza where spreading and killing people due to the type of living they were used to, so in the next chart we can observe the social, political or economic causes and effects that these diseases had. 

Disease	Cause	Effects
Lung Cancer	With the Industrial Revolution came rapidly rising pollution levels, exposure to asbestos and closed-pit mining, and-arguably the most damaging of all-the widespread prevalence of smoking.	Many deaths occurred while the disease was rising; also working children develop lung cancer and died.
Influenza	Lack of hygiene during the time, and lack of knowledge about the disease.	Many deaths, but also the improvement of sanitation and water supply  with the Public Health Bill that combated urban living conditions.

  

Bibliography

·         Mikulin, Rebecca. History of Lung Cancer. n.d. 22 april 2013 <http://www.life123.com/health/cancer/lung-cancer/history-of-lung-cancer.shtml>.

·         Mori, Kathryn & Scearce, Carolyn. Hygiene History in the Industrialized World. june 2011. 22 april 2013 <http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/hygiene/review2.php>.

Historical Events of the Industrial Revolution

1712- the steam Engine was invented: Thomas Newcomen invents the first steam engine.

1830- Tuberculosis started to appear. The disease caused a wasting of the body with the lungs being attacked. The lungs attempt to defend themselves by producing what are called tubercles. The disease causes these tubercles to become yellow and spongy and coughing fits causes them to be spat out by the sufferer.

1831-Cholera was a greatly feared disease. Caused by contaminated water. The disease usually affected those in a city’s poorer areas, though the rich did not escape this disease.

1832- 7000 people died of Cholera

1844- Samuel Morse invents the telegraph, which allows messages to be sent quickly over a wire.

1849- Tuberculosis killed one-third of all those who died in Britain.

1849- Edwin Chadwick was convinced that disease was carried in the atmosphere which had been poisoned by foul smells. This year he persuaded the authorities in London to clean up the sewers in their districts

1854- Typhoid swept through the town.

1864- Microbes were only discovered by Louis Pasteur. Until that time all manner of theories were put forward as to what caused diseases.


- "Diseases in Industrial Cities in the Industrial Revolution." Diseases in Industrial Cities in the Industrial Revolution. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Apr. 2013.

Welcome to the Health and Disease Blog!

This blog was made to let you know more about the Industrial Revolution.   

A number of factors contributed to Britain’s role as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution where that Britain had great deposits of coal and iron ore, which proved essential for industrialization. It was a politically stable society, as well as the world’s leading colonial power, which meant its colonies could serve as a source for raw materials, as well as a marketplace for manufactured goods. 

The Industrial Revolution brought about a greater volume and variety of factory-produced goods and raised the standard of living for many people, particularly for the middle and upper classes. As demand for British goods increased, merchants needed more cost-effective methods of production, which led to the rise of mechanization and the factory system.

Disease was a constant threat during the Industrial Revolution. Changes in the way that people lived and the conditions in which they worked led to diseases being able to spread much more rapidly, and new forms of diseases emerged that were as deadly as any killer that had been before. Water was often the problem. Factories would dump waste into streams and rivers, the same streams and rivers were used to supply homes with water for washing and cooking. Soon people´s health was endangered, and some of that diseases that we are going to develop are the lung cancer and the influenza.