Death in Hamburg. It dealt with society and politics during a cholera pandemic, which killed nearly 10,000 people in six weeks in the German city.
He held a lack of effective public-health policy and miserable living conditions of the urban poor responsible for the tragedy.
Evans highlighted the major role played by a failure to supply clean water, fresh air and hygienic food. Thus, our claims linking urbanization to economic growth may need to be revisited.In the West, epidemics have prompted long-term public health responses aimed at improving sewerage, water supply and garbage-disposal systems.
Like trickle-down economics, it is usually presumed that such measures will eventually benefit the poor.However, as in economics, trickle-down.