Pressure for reforming Living Conditions

The increase in population meant cheap, low quality houses had to be built for the huge influx of people to towns and cities to find work

'Back to back' houses:

• build quality was very poor
• had limited natural lighting so candles or gas lamps had to be used which lead to respiratory problems because of the poor ventilation
• 'back' houses had even worse ventilation and natural light; had cesspools outside which made them even more unhygenic
• 1801 - 2/3 of population in Birmingham lived in back to…