WebQuest
The Scrooge for Mayor Campaign
Health issues directions
These are questions that must be answered by the end of the research days.
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?
Resources:
Health of Victorian women and children
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health6.htm
Nineteenth century health and medicine
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/index.html
Sanitary conditions
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/chadwick2.html
Factory food
http://wwwspartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRfood.factory.htm
Factory pollution
http://wwwspartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRpollution.htm
Deformities
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRdeformities.htm
Rural hygiene
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/nightingale-rural.html
Cholera
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/victorianbritain/healthy/default.htm
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