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GATHERING PLACES 3

contents : From 1830 - 1860 : Gathering places
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Summary: Famine Fever, Workhouse

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Each workhouse had an infirmary which housed those suffering from famine fever or typhus. This was caused by lice which lived on the human body. As people gathered together on relief works, food depots and workhouses, the disease spread rapidly.

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