Industrial Revolution
History
Living Conditions:
As the industrial revolution gathered pace, housing was needed for more and more workers. Some landlords seized the opportunity to exploit this situation. They made their profits by cramming as many poorly-built houses into as small a space as possible. Such as cramped, squalid living conditions proved the perfect breeding ground for disease.
The new factories were like magnets. Made small tows overcrowded cities due to the knock on effect. The development of factories led to poor conditions.
Poorly built houses
Cramped living conditions
Extremely poor hygiene
Run-down, dilapidated housing
Housing:
Housing was small and cramped with numerous houses crammed into small spaces
As the Industrial Revolution beings so does the need for more available living spaces are more people are searching for jobs and employment in the surrounding factories and they need somewhere to live nearby their work
The houses are back-to-back with each room in the house standing about 3 feet wide and 5 feet long
Inside the slum houses there are no toilets, no running water and often no windows or fireplaces
3000 families were visited. In 773 of them the families slept 3 and 4 to a bed, in 209 families slept 4 and 5 to a bed and in 15 families 6 and 7 slept in a bed.
Rooms are cold and cramped and lack ventilation which is not ideal for the winter
The cellar and the attics were the worst and the poorest families had to make their homes in these
Cellar dwellings flooded in bad weather almost an inch deep in stagnant water most of the year round
Attic rooms were cramped and stuffy and had no way of escaping in the emergency of a fire
They were many problems with slum housing such as sewerage, poor ventilation, damp housing, dirty drinking water, rubbish and poor hygiene.
There were 39,000 people living in 7860 cellars which were dark, damp, dirty and unventilated. In one cellar there was a hole in the floor which was above a sewer. At night
Living Conditions:
As the industrial revolution gathered pace, housing was needed for more and more workers. Some landlords seized the opportunity to exploit this situation. They made their profits by cramming as many poorly-built houses into as small a space as possible. Such as cramped, squalid living conditions proved the perfect breeding ground for disease.
The new factories were like magnets. Made small tows overcrowded cities due to the knock on effect. The development of factories led to poor conditions.
Poorly built houses
Cramped living conditions
Extremely poor hygiene
Run-down, dilapidated housing
Housing:
Housing was small and cramped with numerous houses crammed into small spaces
As the Industrial Revolution beings so does the need for more available living spaces are more people are searching for jobs and employment in the surrounding factories and they need somewhere to live nearby their work
The houses are back-to-back with each room in the house standing about 3 feet wide and 5 feet long
Inside the slum houses there are no toilets, no running water and often no windows or fireplaces
3000 families were visited. In 773 of them the families slept 3 and 4 to a bed, in 209 families slept 4 and 5 to a bed and in 15 families 6 and 7 slept in a bed.
Rooms are cold and cramped and lack ventilation which is not ideal for the winter
The cellar and the attics were the worst and the poorest families had to make their homes in these
Cellar dwellings flooded in bad weather almost an inch deep in stagnant water most of the year round
Attic rooms were cramped and stuffy and had no way of escaping in the emergency of a fire
They were many problems with slum housing such as sewerage, poor ventilation, damp housing, dirty drinking water, rubbish and poor hygiene.
There were 39,000 people living in 7860 cellars which were dark, damp, dirty and unventilated. In one cellar there was a hole in the floor which was above a sewer. At night