During
the Victorian times hospitals and doctors were not very good at all. Nobody
understood what germs were and didn't know a lot about diseases and sickness.
The hospitals were known as gateways to death because there was no such thing
as anesthesia (pain killers). Only the wealthy could afford doctors to come to
their house but the poor had to go to a charitable hospital for a workhouse
infirmary.
Most people died from a deadly disease called
Cholera. Cholera was a disease in dirty water with things like pee and poo in
it. So when it was thrown onto the road it soaked into it and that is how
people got the disease.
In the Victorian times they had very odd cures
for illness.some people made home cures. A few of them are: for a cold they
made you smell a moldy sock(they thought it would clear your head) and for a
sore throat they made you wear a red bandage around your neck.
Of course it did get better and better over
the years but before that the death rate of children five and under had
recorded deaths of over 50 per cent. In those times you could die very easily
like if you got kicked in the face by a horse.
The Victorian medical equipment was just as
bad as the health. They used artificial leeches that ripped open your skin and
sucked the blood out of you because they believed that when you were sick you
had an evil spirit living inside you. The doctors sucked the blood from you
until your face turned pale. They also used other cruel instruments. Now you
can see how horrible the Victorians were.I hope you learned a lot from this
report. Thank you.
Bibliography:
Deary,Terry.Villanous Victorians.London:Scholastic,2004
Reader,W.J.Victorian England.,London:William
Clowes and sons Ltd,1974
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