Living Conditions in the pre - industrial era
- Created by: mellis98
- Created on: 10-09-15 10:20
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- LIVING CONDITIONS
- POLLUTION
- household waste was put onto streets
- the air had black smoke in it from factories chimneys
- diseases occurred from overcrowding
- 1832 - 31,000 peope died from cholera
- IMPROVEMENTS
- public health acts introduced eg. sewage
- 19th century - towns built sewers & clean water supply
- houses made with more care & thought
- public parks & libraries created
- new street lighting
- 1853 - tax was taken off soap - cleaner people as able to afford it
- Public Health Act 1875
- banned open sewers
- houses built further apart
- rubbish collection introduced
- public health inspectors
- PROBLEMS
- INFRASTRUCTURE
- no regular garbage pick up
- lack police services - 39 officers for 10,000 people
- increased crime rate
- overcrowded prisons
- OVERCROWDING
- 6-9 people in 1 room apartment
- diseases spread quickly with some people dying
- lacked medical care
- no hot water avaliable
- INFRASTRUCTURE
- OTHER PROBLEMS
- toilets were outside - emptied by soil men - some not taken away - contamintated water caused cholera
- houses became slums - 17 people from dif families lived in area of 5m/4m
- pressures on cities as many people move to find work - shortage of housing
- factory owners built houses near work - no toilet or water - 100 houses share 1 pump - polluted water
- POLLUTION
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