Science homework help (+6rep)

1. Research the living conditions in Victorian slums and explain how these conditions helped the spread of disease
2. 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

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Originally Posted by PaulMacC

1. Research the living conditions in Victorian slums and explain how these conditions helped the spread of disease
2. 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

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For number 2, this might be worth reading
http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.asp

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

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

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Originally Posted by PaulMacC

1. Research the living conditions in Victorian slums and explain how these conditions helped the spread of disease

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Also think about the hygiene standards back then and also the availibility of effective medecines. Considering that antibiotics were unknown then.