British History- Living Standards Mind Map
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- British Living Standards (1918-1939
- Incomes
- Severe recession in '21
- Many families had to get by on less than £5 a week
- However, average real cost of living fell by more than a third between '20-'38
- Quality of life in York increased by 30% between 1899-1936
- Increase in contraception shrank family sizes down
- Health and Diet
- '21- 1,187,450 mean in receipt of disability pensions due to WWI
- Decline in alcohol consumption following the 1914 Defence of the Realm Act banned it.
- Healthier diet promoted by rationing
- Additionally, healthier diet promoted by the 1914 Education (Provision of Meals) Act to all needy schoolchildren.
- Healthcare slightly improved
- '22- infant mortality had halved from 1900 levels.
- More people survived to the age of 65. Hospitals, however, weren't readily available
- '22- infant mortality had halved from 1900 levels.
- Regional variations
- Unemploym-ent never fell below 1m between 1921-1940.
- Rose 3m in 1932 and 1933.
- 1929- 5% of those in need of benefits had been jobless for over 1 year.
- By 1932, this had risen to 16.4%
- Beveridge (in '44) calculated that 85% of all long-term unemploym-ent was located in the North of England, Scotland, and Wales
- Impact on local areas = 62% of all shipbuilders were unemployed in 1932 compared to 20% in car manufacture
- Unemploym-ent never fell below 1m between 1921-1940.
- Consumption
- Electricity consumed increased from 730,000 in 1920 to 9m in 1938.
- The share of homes with electricity increased from 32% in 1932 to 66% in 1938
- This expansion was encouraged by the 1926 Electrical (Supply) Act, which established a Central Electricity Board and a National Grid
- The share of homes with electricity increased from 32% in 1932 to 66% in 1938
- Electricity consumed increased from 730,000 in 1920 to 9m in 1938.
- Incomes
- 20% of households owned a car in the south-east, compared to only 12% in the North
- Additionally, poorer people usually banded together to buy cars.
- Cars bought in the south-east were much more likely to be privately owned.
- Consumption
- Electricity consumed increased from 730,000 in 1920 to 9m in 1938.
- The share of homes with electricity increased from 32% in 1932 to 66% in 1938
- This expansion was encouraged by the 1926 Electrical (Supply) Act, which established a Central Electricity Board and a National Grid
- The share of homes with electricity increased from 32% in 1932 to 66% in 1938
- Electricity consumed increased from 730,000 in 1920 to 9m in 1938.
- Additionally, poorer people usually banded together to buy cars.
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