Question

Overall pollution in British cities contributed to bronchitis and tuberculosis, which both may have accounted for _________.

a. a reappearance of bubonic plague.
b. a decline in populations.
c. 10 percent of British deaths.
d. the debilitation of 75 percent of workers before they reached the age of thirty-five.
e. 25 percent of British deaths.

Answer 1

E

Step-by-step explanation:

Overall pollution in British cities contributed to bronchitis and tuberculosis, which both may have accounted for 25 percent of British deaths.

Answer 2

E. 25 percent of British deaths.

Step-by-step explanation:

It was reported that after the advent of anti-tuberculosis drugs in the 1960s, improved in housing, nutrition and economic status brought a decline in prevalence of the bronchitis and tuberculosis.

By the 1980s, TB was considered to be almost eradicated in the UK.

However, this is said to have changed again with the increase in travel and migration. The review suggests that the poorer socio-economic status and living conditions experienced by certain population groups have led to a gradual re-emergence of TB as a public health problem in Europe. While In the 1800s up to 25% of deaths in Europe were attributed to TB.