Causes and Effects

Disease: Cholera

Causes:

• sewage was being allowed to come into contact with drinking water and contaminating it. As many people used river water as their source of drinking water, the disease spread with ease.

•Many people start dying because of this disease and they continue spreading the disease all over Europe.

Effects:

•Social Effect: In London it is thought 7000 people died of the disease in the 1831-32 outbreak which represented a 50% death rate of those who caught it. 15,000 people died in London in the 1848-49 outbreak.

•Economic Effect:  Other countries panic, people don't allow others to travel from the area that's infected. Also, they restrict imports on certain foods.