History A-Level
Urban living and public health
What Urban living and public health means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Urban living and public health
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Industrialisation brought overcrowded housing and poor sanitation, and in 1848 a severe cholera epidemic struck Belfast's crowded courts, exposing sanitary failures.
Topics that use Urban living and public health
- Paper 3, Option 36.2: Ireland and the Union, c1774–1923 - 2 Industrial- isation in Ulster, 1825–55 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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