Sanitation

For this reason the growth of cities led public health officials to improve sanitation methods as a way to prevent the spread of communicable disease, and the founding of the American Medical Association (AMA) attempted to define educational standards for physicians. The Civil War was still an influence to American medicine. The United States Sanitary Commission was created in June 1861. Its goal was to improve sanitation. The Commission built large well-ventilated hospital tents and more…

If you work in the medical field, you know as well as anyone just how dangerous bacteria and viruses can be. While this is true for all applications, it is especially true in medical facilities. When it comes to a medical office or facility, keeping the space clean, tidy, and sanitary directly related to being a reliable healthcare provider. No patient will feel comfortable stepping into, let alone receive care from, a space that is messy, smelly, or has been noticeably neglected. Not to mention…

just impacting in it’s spread of new machines and technology, factories and air pollutions. It changed how people lived, and the political landscape of the 1800’s, among many other things. With an steady improvement in medicine and health care, sanitation awareness, and a decrease in infant mortality, there was a massive increase in population. People were just living longer.…

Documentary: Women during the Progressive Era During the Progressive Era, male figures such as Theodore Roosevelt and Upton Sinclair where the main focus as they did indeed change America for the better. However men should not take all the credit as women too brought change. Many people do not understand that women were the driving force behind most progressive reforms as they impacted the Progressive Era greatly by creating many luxuries that we take for granted today such as: clean water,…

of the Movement," describes the injustice farmers faced in the camps. For example, growers rent housing at an overpriced amount; no running water, electricity, heat, nor indoor toilets were supplied to them. The lack of basic needs and proper sanitation makes workers vulnerable to diseases. In addition, the workers fall into a cycle of debt to these growers because most migrates were forced to buy food from…

Once I heard this year’s theme for the 2016 National History Day competition was “Exploration, Encounter and Exchange,” I immediately began to envisage explorers, inventors, and visionaries from all over the world. However, I knew I wanted to keep my topic close to the country I originated from—the Philippines. In my topic, I didn’t want to reference the country literally, so I choose poverty as inspiration because it affects many people in the Philippines. Then, I remembered watching a clip, in…

she says “The fundamental public health lessons of the past 150 years are known even to lay people. It is well understood that the overall health status of populations and their capacity to fight off infection is related primarily to food, water, sanitation, and housing” (435). This is saying that people get AIDS/HIV primarily due to having small rations of food, a lack of clean water, proper sanitary needs, and poor housing. It also is implying that most people commonly know that these things…

dirty and full of infections and diseases that cause life to be dangerous and cause death. The captains were known as tight r loose packers based on how many people they brought at once. There was overcrowding, little ventilation, and barely any sanitation. This caused suffocation, disease, death, and things like lice. the people who became mentally ill were brutally killed on the ship and thrown overboard and the people who showed any signs of being sick were thrown overboard while still alive.…

I think what happened to jay horrible and I wish that he never had to go through that pain. We need to be more cautious about which hospital we go to and make sure they are up to date on precautions and health regulations and make sure the doctors are exceptional in their work. But, even though we try our best we might still come down with MRSA/VRE sometimes we just can’t help it. Things happen and we can’t always fix it but we can do our best to fight it and try to contain it. There are many…

license. “To get a license I will have to take tests and have to undergo 1,500- 3,000 hours of training to qualify for a license” (Chron). This quote shows, that the more training the better. “The steps to get a license are, a written exam over sanitation rules, chemical usage, hair styling techniques, the state laws and sometimes an oral examination” (Education Requirements to become a cosmetologist). This quote shows, the process I will have to take to get my license and to become a…