Sanitation by Riley Beech https://padlet.com/rileybeech/1kyhx9ohzwf5 Share info, links, sources etc that tell us about sanitation and health in Australia in 1900 en-us 2017-06-19 23:38:53 UTC 2025-12-23 22:39:15 UTC hello@padlet.com a time when diseases like smallpox, cholera and TB were insatiable. https://padlet.com/rileybeech/1kyhx9ohzwf5/wish/176922718 2017-06-20 01:22:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rileybeech/1kyhx9ohzwf5/wish/176922718 https://padlet.com/rileybeech/1kyhx9ohzwf5/wish/176922842 Middle class men might live, on average, to 45. The average lives of workmen and labourers spanned just half that time.]]> 2017-06-20 01:24:41 UTC https://padlet.com/rileybeech/1kyhx9ohzwf5/wish/176922842 https://padlet.com/rileybeech/1kyhx9ohzwf5/wish/176922918 Children were lucky to survive their fifth birthdays. (The current life expectancy is around 80, and rising.)]]> 2017-06-20 01:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/rileybeech/1kyhx9ohzwf5/wish/176922918 https://padlet.com/rileybeech/1kyhx9ohzwf5/wish/176923037 It was believed that bad smells caused disease. It was obvious; in poor districts, the air was foul and the death rate high. In the prosperous suburbs, no smells – therefore no disease.]]> 2017-06-20 01:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/rileybeech/1kyhx9ohzwf5/wish/176923037 serologic testing came use in the 1910 https://padlet.com/rileybeech/1kyhx9ohzwf5/wish/176923224 2017-06-20 01:30:28 UTC https://padlet.com/rileybeech/1kyhx9ohzwf5/wish/176923224 https://padlet.com/rileybeech/1kyhx9ohzwf5/wish/176923258 Treatment for mental illness or nervous disorders had changed little since medieval times. Those sufferers lower down the social scale were locked up in County Asylums]]> 2017-06-20 01:30:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rileybeech/1kyhx9ohzwf5/wish/176923258 https://padlet.com/rileybeech/1kyhx9ohzwf5/wish/176924085


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