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Mind Map by livmills97, updated more than 1 year ago
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The Impact Of Industrialisation On
Living Conditions, Health & Hygiene
- 1700 onwards = Industrial Revolution
- People worked in bigger
groups and in factories.
- More and more machines
were invented to help the
manufacturing industries =
larger factoried were set up
- Factories needed more
workers = factory towns and
villages grew rapidly
- Workers (badly paid) could
not afford good housing.
- Either crammed into old
buildings (often more than
one family to a room.
- Or new houses were
built cheaply for them.
- Town houses were often built
on a back-to-back system.
- Sometimes
built around a
courtyard.
- Courtyards were unpaved
and became muddy and
contaminated with sewage.
- Waste was piled in the
courtyard or thrown into
streams.
- Waste was piled in the
courtyard or thrown into
streams.
- Courtyards were unpaved
and became muddy and
contaminated with sewage.
- Sometimes
built around a
courtyard.
- Either crammed into old
buildings (often more than
one family to a room.
- There was little provision for
fresh water or sewage disposal.
- The government had a
policy of laissez-faire.
- Houses were verminated, badly ventilated and
overcrowded.
- Wells and watercourses
quickly became polluted.
- Industry made problems
worse. Factory chimneys
belched smoke and fumes
into the air and other waste
products from factories
polluted the rivers
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