industrial living conditions

Question 1

what types of houses were there ?

Answer 1

lodging houses until families found somewhere to rent
back-to-back houses

Question 2

what was done to food to improve colour ?

Answer 2

food was adulterated

Question 3

what was the main source of water in working class ares ?

Answer 3

water pumps

Question 4

what did night soil men do ?

Answer 4

emptied cesspools under privies which were often shared

Question 5

what was their diet like?

Answer 5

poor had a terrible diet, living on potatoes, bread and butter.
there was no tinned food or adulterated

Question 6

what was the water resources like?

Answer 6

water companies controlled access to water and charged high prices.
in poor areas the whole street shared one pump.
water was pumped from rivers which was contaminated from waste.

Question 7

what was waste like?

Answer 7

the poor continued to share privies.
sewage was collected into cesspits which contaminated water supplies.
richer families had flushing toilets that further contaminated rivers.

Question 8

1848 public health act

Answer 8

local authorities set up boards of health in order to build sewers and provide clean water. however the impact was limited because it was not compulsory.

Question 9

1875 public health act

Answer 9

forced local authorities to take responsibility for sewers and water supply.

Question 10

1861 louis pasteur

Answer 10

published his germ theory confirming that bacteria and not miasma- spread disease.