Crime
What group was primarily affected by crime?
The lower classes
How is Cholera spread?
Water or food sources contaminated by feces
How is tuberculosis spread?
Bacteria, spread by contact with infected
Did hospitals try to cure patients?
No, they tried to quarantine them
Which class was typically affected by disease?
The lower classes
Where did crime primarily occur?
What country was primarily affected by Cholera?
France
Roughly, what percentage of Cholera victims died?
Half
How did the lower classes respond to Tuberculosis?
Getting "better air" and living on top of tenement buildings
How were the infected viewed?
As morally corrupt
What effect did crime have on politics?
A call for law and order
What are the three primary effects of Cholera?
Vomiting, diarrhea, and dehydration
What are the symptoms of tuberculosis?
Blood in cough, fever, sullen look
How did the upper classes respond to Tuberculosis?
Moving to the countryside
What disease became romanticized among artists?
Tuberculosis
Which president's campaign called for "law and order"?
How did the Bubonic plague get to India and San Francisco?
Through the trading port of Hong Kong
What was the official death toll of the bubonic plague in India?
17 million, in reality higher once it spread to rural areas
How did U.S. doctors respond to germ theory?
Negatively, thinking it was absurd
What effect did disease have on the infected?
Social isolation
Which president used federal intervention to combat crime?
What group in SF was the plague thought only to affect?
Chinese-Americans
Why were people reluctant to report signs of the plague?
The means of dealing with the plague were destructive, included burning down buildings and evacuating people from homes
Which U.S. president died because of improper treatment of a gunshot wound?
James A. Garfield
What political change did the bubonic plague set the stage for in India?
A focus on local religious leaders for healing set the stage for independence from Britain