Science homework help (+6rep)

[PaulMacC]

Research the living conditions in Victorian slums and explain how these conditions helped the spread of disease
The nursery rhyme ''ring a ring a rosies, a pocket full of posies, a tishoo, a tishoo, we all fall down'' is from the Great Plague between 1664 and 1666, what disease was this?I cant find anything on those, any help would be much appreachiated.
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[stratosphere]

Research the living conditions in Victorian slums and explain how these conditions helped the spread of disease
The nursery rhyme ''ring a ring a rosies, a pocket full of posies, a tishoo, a tishoo, we all fall down'' is from the Great Plague between 1664 and 1666, what disease was this?I cant find anything on those, any help would be much appreachiated.
cheers.
+rep to anyone who makes a valuable point
For number 2, this might be worth reading
http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.asp

[lew!]

1. Because of the cramped conditions where the houses and people were so close together, germs spread easily through human contact,

[Bibliophobia]

2. black death - a pocketful of posies means flowers that they carried around as they thought bad smells would spread the black death

[Jin]

Research the living conditions in Victorian slums and explain how these conditions helped the spread of diseaseAlso think about the hygiene standards back then and also the availibility of effective medecines. Considering that antibiotics were unknown then.