“But influenza did not strike everyone equally.” Elaborate this statement stating how different living conditions led to the spread of the infection(Spanish flu) in colonial India.
Answers
In India, a whopping 13 million people died during the 1918 influenza pandemic, the overwhelming majority between the months of September and December.
- The spread of the disease was so high that there was none to remove or bury the dead bodies and as a result jackals ate them and made a feast.
- Yet not everyone was affected similarly by influenza. Most British citizens in India resided in big houses with gardens and yards compared to the lower classes of Indians living in densely populated areas.
- Most British still had domestic workers to take care of them during the periods of health and illness . They were only marginally impacted by the pandemic and were majorly unconcerned about the country's spreading turmoil.
“But influenza did not strike everyone equally.” Elaborate this statement stating how different living conditions led to the spread of the infection(Spanish flu) in colonial India.
Explanation:
The 1918 influenza pandemic in India, decimated between 12 and 13 million people, most of these people died between the months of September and December.
Crematoriums were receiving around 150 to 200 bodies per day.
The disease did not afflict the affluent British people as much as it did the low class Indians. The British lived in spacious , well aerated houses while the vast majority of low class Indians lived in congestion and in squalid poverty. The British also had servants to take care of them.