Health concenrs for soldiers?

Question

how did Lice, Disease, and Sanitation problems effect the soldiers in ww1?

Answer 1

well they only had limited space, and so lots of soldiers were packed in a limited amount of trenches, therefore, disease spread easier. they interacted with eachother daily and the terrible sanitary conditions and what not really affected them in the ways of lice and other diseases. sanitation was terrible because they had limited resources. they couldnt go to the bathroom then flush it, they probably had to make holes then bury it, but it spread throughout the air and affect them like that.

hope this helps.

Answer 2

The things you list were a definite problem for the Dough boys of WWI.  However; their biggest concern was Mustard Gas--used by the Germans on the battlefield.  Many were seriously burned and their lungs badly damaged.  In the trenches there was such squalor and rats were a horrible problem often eating toes that were suffering rot from being submerged in water for long periods of time.  Many came home suffering more from disease than battle wounds.  It was a horrible time for America when the returning soldiers went to Washington to seek bonus money supposedly promised them only to have themselves treated inhumanely.

Answer 3

In WWI soldiers fought with trench warfare and were cooped up in the trench most days and while there they would be forced to deal with the smell of sewage, the terrible itching of lice and the fatigue of diesease.

The soldiers would be stuck in the trenches some dying some dead and were forced to deal with terrible problems that couldn't be fixed.