The Social Reform and Why it was needed
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- The Social Reform, Why?
- Poor People faced serious hardship in the 1890's
- Workhouses were the only help offered
- Provided basic food and lodgings
- Hard labour and long work hours
- Work houses were seen as shameful
- Old people suffered due to no state pensions or health care
- Illness were easily spread
- Cold, damp logdings
- No health care
- Illness or injury meant time off work and less money
- Workhouses were the only help offered
- Charles Booth
- 1/3 of people were poor according to his study
- Sometimes it was impossible to find work
- Wages weren't enough for people to live off.
- 28% of people in York were too poor to afford basic human needs such as food.
- Poor People faced serious hardship in the 1890's
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