Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Health and Housing
- conditions were poor due to
industrialisation
- growth was so quick that towns couldn't
cope
- poor conditions
- lack of sanitation
- open sewers
- communal toilets
- polluted water
- Dirty water supply
- shortage of fresh clean water
- lack of hygiene
- few washing facilities
- clothes were difficult to wash
- soap was expensive
- killer diseases
- no cure for many diseases
- poor housing
- overcrowding
- blocked up windows - window tax
- lack of support from state
- didn't help those in poverty
- improving conditions
- lack of sanitation
- 1848 - Public Health Act - local
councils set up health boards
- 1875 Public Health Act - forced authorities to
provide sewage system and provide clean water
- dirty water supply
- reservoirs piped in clean drinking water
- lack of hygiene
- ending of tax on soap
- cotton clothes could be washed easier
- poor diet
- improvements to farming
- better transport for fresh food
- tea became
alternative to beer
- killer diseases
- cleaner hospitals
- better diet
- cleaner water
- poor housing
- 1855 Nuisance Removal Act allowed council to
demolish the worst slum housing
- 1875 artisans Dwellings Act
- demolish all slums
- Lack of
support from
state
- still little help