health and sanitation during the industrial revolution

Health during the industrial revolution was terrible. Illness spread easily from so many workers in the same places. Many workers went to work sick even because they needed what small pay they got from their factory jobs. So much bacteria and viruses were in the factories didn't help either.

pictures: smog of the factories, worker in a textile mill, sick people from the factories, city of factories, workers, smoggy city, factory.

Links:

http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/publichealth/publichealth_industrialrevolution.htm

http://www.tesd.k12.pa.us/stoga/dept/socials/IndustrialRevolution/index.htm

http://www.lycos.com/info/revolution--revolution-health.html

http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/0058

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0858818.html