Poverty in Victorian England
Victorian England has been dramatized into a blissful time of prosperity and great discovery, for the rich, but then there was the other half. Victorian England grew to fast said Patrick Rooke, it had no laws to cope with its increase in technology and so it fell back upon itself and the class gap widened. (39) Before the Victorian era there was an immense growth in factory production and disease. The later having a profound effect on medical discoveries. Laws could not keep up with new factories and after they became strong parts of the government there was nothing that politicians could do to stop them from making 3 year olds work ten-hour days. Sanitation was also a big problem in London, there was no personal hygiene, disease was the number one killer (Out of eight people seven of them would die of disease and the other one would die of natural causes including violence.) Crime was an outlet for many poverty-stricken families who taught their kids how to steal at a very young age and for a living the whole family went out every day and robbed people on the streets. The courts also needed some help catching up with society, if you stole a loaf of bread you were given the same punishment as a murderer, Death. Th
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Approximate Word count = 2662
Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page double spaced)
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