Ventilation in the slums is inadequate owing to the hopelessly unplanned nature of these areas.” (Doc. 5) Many poor city dwellers were forced to live in dark, filthy, overcrowded slums. There were many problems such as overuse of natural resources and pollution to not only the air but also the water. As of air, air, smoke had blackened the air. And water was being contaminated.
Tuberculosis, typhoid and cholera were diseases that developed in many cities killing thousands. Adding to these unbearable conditions, air pollution and malnutrition became a huge and deadly problem. Crime, Alcoholism and prostitution started becoming natural outcomes for individuals that were dealing with these ongoing problems. Also not only the living conditions were unlivable, working conditions were even worse. Depending on the hours throughout the workday, workers shifts could be doubled and workers could be working up to six days a week.
From the years 1780-1832, Manchester, England was a leading textile manufacturing city soon after its first industrialized cotton mill was built in 1780. The city’s population boomed during the years of the industrialization increasing from 18,000 to over 300,000; predominantly made up of the working class and immigrants. In addition, Queen Victoria granted Manchester a royal charter after her pleasant visit during 1851, acknowledging the city’s great progress and giving it special privileges because of its success. Although many positive effects came from the textile manufacturing and growing population, the repercussion of its health issues, low morale, along with its working and living conditions overshadow its accomplishments. The industrialization of Manchester was successful for the modernization of man, yet its growth also raised many concerns in society.
Also new progressive members were put in place who were Liberal Tories, including Peel, Canning, Robinson, and Huskisson. Also Britain was undergoing an economic revival, and was a much stronger and bigger trading nation then before. Consequently they introduced Economic reforms. Furthermore crime rates had doubled since the wars with France, and this had an alarming effect on the Tories. Moreover it seemed that the “Penal Code” was not respected or enforced hardly enough, because it was too harsh, it carried too many death penalties, and some of the laws were very old and were usually overlapping each other.
The scarcity of land gave the community an air of competitiveness that it had never seen before. What was once a trusting, although very strict, society very rapidly became one of mistrust and disorder. The sudden transformation of Salem was largely due to the lose legal parameters for accusing others of witchcraft as well as the weakening of Puritan values because of the Half-Way Covenant. In this the
Some say that the soldiers' immune systems were weakened by malnourishment. The influenza pandemic circled the globe. Most All of these illnesses were the main cause of torture that the soldiers of World War I had to go through and were mainly caused by the life in the trenches. Trench foot and Trench fever were something more usual in the life of war. Unlike The Spanish influenza, which had more serious side effects.
Although the problem of smuggling had to be overcome, exportation in Britain was booming. Britain was in the midst of a mass industrial revolution and was ‘rich’ in the right resources such as cotton, other textile goods and coal. This was a real boost for Britain’s economy and was a factor completely
Many immigrants had to deal with poor living and working conditions (OK). Immigrants were paid low wages, so they had to live in tenements (Document 1). Tenements were crowded, unsanitary, and unsafe apartments that were very small (OK). Diseases spread quickly due to the overcrowding (OK). They were unsafe because there were no regulations on how they were built.
Geraldine Brooks explores how ignorance, superstition and hysteria can be as fatal as any plague within her novel ‘Year of Wonders’. During the trying year of the plague superstition, ignorance, and hysteria took over the village, causing people to make irrational accusations, decisions and behave immorally, turning against each other. Brooks explores how the plague acts as a catalyst effecting each of the villagers differently on a physical and emotional level. The plague is defined as a large amount of insects or animals infesting a place causing damage, within the novel we see the villagers become these animals. Fear and anguish brought out some of the worst qualities in the villagers causing them to turn against one another creating anger, conflict and damage unto one another.
At the time, it was deadly – the constant loss of fluids caused such severe dehydration that the patients often fell into comas and died. Snow was an epidemic doctor, and the first to prove there was a link between water and cholera. In 1854, he worked on Broad Street in Soho, London. This street and