What Went Wrong In The 19th Century

On April 26th, I noticed that there were more people watching me and fellow workers work. These people were for some reason talking to us and were taking notes. These men told us that they were investigators, they were talking notes on our working conditions. They also interviewed us to take notes from the workers the working conditions. The investigators have also noticed that some of of us were not in good shape, like if were underweight for their age. They also noticed that many workers looked like they were being overworked. On June 1st, I noticed that people suddenly started to become ill and people started to die after getting ill one day earlier. I later found out that an epidemic was occurring all around London. I watched as the government tried to quarantine the area where they thought that the disease was. The disease kept occurring everywhere, it was like if the government would have to quarantine the whole city. This was a very scary for me and many other people. It was hard to watch as people were dying due to the disease. We didn’t know what disease it was until a while later, we then found out that it was cholera. …show more content…
He passed away because of cholera. Many people that cholera was able to be contained, but the problem was we didn’t know where the disease was originating from. At first many people thought that it was coming from all the dirt around the city. I and many other people were told that we need to clean up the city so that we don’t get cholera. Even when the city was cleaner than it was before, people were still getting sick. One person thought that the disease was originating from our drinking water, we all thought that he was wrong. The person was Dr. Snow, he was one of the few that believed that the disease was coming from the drinking water. At the time, we didn’t think that the disease was coming from the polluted river and turns out that Dr. Snow was right and we were