Write down five words to

describe housing in

cities during the Industrial

revolution

Lesson Objectives To understand what life was like for

people living in an Industrial Town.

What can you see happening in this image?

Overcrowding

population

Dirty drinking water

Poor hygiene

Poor housing

Pollution Sewage

The problem of public health shown here is …….

The problem of public health shown here is…..

The problem of public health shown here is …….

The problem of public health shown here is …….

The problem of public health shown here is….

The problem of public health shown here is …….Overcrowded buildings. Many people often had to share the same small and dirty rooms and the same beds. This meant diseases would spread quickly and easily.

The problem of public health shown here is ……. Dirty streets with rubbish heaps. A woman is dressed in ragged clothing and is searching through a heap of rubbish in the street, you can also see a child playing in the rubbish. The waste was not removed from the streets which shows that people lived in filthy conditions and this could have led to diseases spreading.

The problem of public health shown here is ……. Death. A coffin is being carried among the crowded streets. This shows that people were around dying or dead people which would have made it easier for them to catch diseases.

The problem of public health shown here is …….public lodging houses. Here many people, often strangers, would share dirty and cramped rooms. This meant that diseases could spread quickly and as people moved around the country they would spread the disease further.

The problem of public health shown here is …….child poverty A young boy is holding a broom used for cleaning chimneys which tells us he works. The boy is dressed in rags which shows he is poor. Many children did dangerous jobs and worked for long hours for little pay and could afford not much food or clothing. This meant that they would be under-nourished and unhealthy, which made them more likely to die from diseases.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, anyone who owned land could build whatever they wanted on it.

There were no laws governing the quality of building

Houses were built poorly and towns were not looked after.

People lived in horrible conditions

CELLAR DWELLINGSCELLAR DWELLINGS BACK TO BACK HOUSINGBACK TO BACK HOUSING

One-room cellars below ground level.

They were damp and poorly ventilated

Built in a court grid system

The rows of houses were literally built 'back to back' one room deep.

“There is one privy, which has a cesspool in common with another privy attached to

another house. The cesspool is nearly full; the wood-work of the privy can scarcely hold

together, and is dangerous to use. Not long ago the landlady

of some houses fell into a cesspool and was suffocated.”

London 1848London 1848

The shortage of housing often meant that one house accommodated several

families, each having one room:

‘On the second floor lived a widow. In her room lived her grown-up son, two daughters, and two or three children of one of these daughters. Above on the third floor lived a market porter, his wife and four children.’ Charles Booth, 1889.

Think! What problems would overcrowding like this

have brought?

Most of these slum housing had little in the way of furniture. Many had just a table, a few chairs and a bed.

A bed would be shared by several family members, and if some did shift work the bed could be used night and day.

Task: Task:

What does this source What does this source suggest about how people suggest about how people

caught diseases?caught diseases?

•Water supply was a massive problem.

•Sewage contaminated water as privies and rubbish were left to overflow and fester.

Problems with the Problems with the water supplywater supply

Diseases & killer conditions

Cholera Typhoid

Tuberculosis Influenza

Pneumonia

Think!How often do these diseases kill in the UK today?

Robert Southey wrote: "The dwellings of the

labouring manufacturers are in narrow streets, blocked up from light and air, crowded together because every inch of land is of such value that room for light and air cannot be afforded them.

Here in Manchester, a great proportion of the poor lodge in cellars, damp and dark, where every kind of filth is left to accumulate.

Friedrich Engels wrote: ‘The irregular cramming

together of dwellings in ways which defy all rational plan. They are crowded literally one upon the other.

At the end of the court passage is a privy without a door, so dirty that the inhabitants can pass into and out of the court only by passing through foul pools of stagnant urine and excrement.

Is to write a detailed report about an industrial town

about what life is like for the people who lived there.You must include the following....

Number of people living in that area/ number of people to a house

Types of houses and what the houses were like inside and out.

Conditions in that area (sewage, drinking water and privies)

The spread of Cholera

ExtensionExtension- Draw a picture of the area you have investigated

Write a list of as many Write a list of as many reasons as you can why reasons as you can why diseases were common diseases were common in nineteenth century in nineteenth century

towns.towns.

Design a poster warning people aboutDesign a poster warning people about

diseases in the towns, particularly diseases in the towns, particularly cholera,cholera,

and telling them what they must do to and telling them what they must do to avoid them!avoid them!

(Explain in as much detail as you can (Explain in as much detail as you can how they must change the towns)how they must change the towns)

HEAD-something that has made you

think

BIN-something you did not find

interesting

BAG- something you will remember

and take away

HEART- something that you have felt

Bin