How did living conditions and public health improve in the 19th century
In England during the 19th century living conditions and public health was generally very poor, it simply needed major improvement. There were many reasons for why improvement was needed and also many affects of poor public health and woeful living conditions. I will be explaining what the conditions were like and why there was a need for improvement. As you can imagine life was usually harder for poor people and the conditions they lived in were extremely poor. There were many reasons for these poor living conditions such as overcrowding. ... The lower class were forced to live in the slums as only the middle class could live in the suburbs, because they were able to afford public transport into the town every day to go to work. ... The overcrowding led to some rooms being lived in by about two families which made the living conditions unbearable with open sewers, cramped alleys, foul smell, houses that are damp and dirty. ... The living conditions were utterly unacceptable to modern standards. ... A fact that proves how bad conditions were is that in Manchester in the 1840’s 57% of babies failed to reach the age of 5. ... There were some people who wanted improvements in living conditions and public health. ... In 1842 he published his Report into the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain.