What condition most directly contributed to the spread of disease in city tenements in the early 1900s?

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Dereon Hernandez

27 May, 14:49

What condition most directly contributed to the spread of disease in city tenements in the early 1900s?

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Lee Wilkerson · Answer 1

Overcrowding was most directly contributed to the spread of disease in city tenements in the early 1900.

Back then, the city was shocked by smallpox epidemic. Since smallpox is easily transmitted by contact, overcrowded areas are the perfect breeding spot for smallpox (they still has not developed small pox vaccine back then)