The Industrial Revolution was a period of great adaptation in manufacturing technology that lasted from about the year 1760 to 1900. It brought about much change, both for the better and the worse. The Industrial Revolution was more negative than positive for Europeans in the 19th century. For much of the Industrial Revolution, working conditions were unhealthy and dangerous for the low-skilled workers and living conditions in the city were unhealthy and unsafe. However, over the course of one-hundred years, the quality of life improved. Working conditions during the Industrial Revolution were unhealthy and dangerous for the low-skilled workers. This is seen most prominently in Joseph Hebergam’s 1832 testimony before Parliament, where in response …show more content…
The working conditions were clearly hazardous enough to cause injury, nevermind death. For two dozen children to die during such a short span of time shows the unjustly risky conditions low-skilled workers were exposed to. The factory owners did not care for their workers, leading to inhumane and unjust injuries and casualties. If factory owners had treated their workers more decently, then there almost certainly would have been less death and disfigurement. Another factory worker, William Cooper, also testified before Parliament about the poor working conditions. In 1832, he stated that, “We had just one [break] period of forty-five minutes in the sixteen hour [work day]” (Document 1). Sixteen hours is two-thirds of an entire day, and much of the remaining third would be spent sleeping. To spend this much time working - and in dangerous conditions, too - would undoubtedly cause strain and damage to the worker. These workers had one short break to rest. They must have been exhausted …show more content…
Professor Michael Faraday tells of the dangers of city life in his letter Observations on the Filth of the Thames to the editor of the Times of London in July, 1855. He observed that, “The whole river was for the time a real sewer” (Document 13). The Thames River runs through London, and several houses and buildings lie on its banks. The residents of these buildings had to constantly be near the brown, fetid waters, and breathe in the stench all the while. Unclean conditions can easily spread disease, as seen also in Medieval Europe, and the sewer-like Thames could easily spread disease considering the mass amount of feculence dumped into it. The widespread disease had the potential to drastically reduce the lifespan of those who lived in the city. The filth spread not only to the river, but to the entire city as well. The British Medical Journal The Lancet reported in 1843, that the average lifespan of those in industrial areas was twelve years less than those in rural areas (Document 9). This statistic includes nothing of the jobs of the people, but focuses instead on their living conditions. If two people have the same job but live in separate places and one still dies sooner, there is plainly something wrong with the location. Because people are dying much sooner in cities than in rural areas, the cities are distinctly more dangerous and unhealthy to live in than less urban areas.
The book The Ghost Map by Steven Berlin Johnson talks about the cholera outbreak that occurred in Victorian London during the mid-1800s, during this outbreak more than 600 people living in London died from cholera. The book The Ghost Map also talks about how Dr. John Snow who is considered as the “The Father of Epidemiology” created his “Big Experiment” this experiment consistent in finding the reasons behind the cholera outbreak and how it was possible that a certain part of the city was having the most cases of cholera while other parts of the city were “safe” from the cholera outbreak. The first chapter of the book mainly serves to provide background information to the reader. In this chapter we read that one of the main causes of the cholera
The Industrial Revolution affected people in different ways both by bad and good effects. The Industrial revolution was a good and a bad time with both positive and negative things happening during this time. There were plenty of positive effects on the Industrial Revolution. In Document 7 it says about how there was equal rights for men and women. In document 3 employment grew a lot which is good so people could get more jobs.
The homes lacked stability or any regard for sanitation, which lead to disease and harm to the dwellers. Document 11 describes the industrial towns as, “[unpaved streets], full of holes, filthy and strewn with refuse” and Document 10 elaborates by stating, “that the annual loss of life from filth and bad ventilation are greater than the loss from death or wounds in any wars”. The poor construction and sanitation stems from the need to quickly build the homes to quickly house the workers. Through urbanization, resulting from the Industrial Revolution, the towns became overpopulated at exhausting rates and only worsened the issues at hand. Had the industry not boomed so quickly, there would have been ample opportunity to ensure safe and clean living conditions, which in turn would have resulted in less death and disease to the
Before the late 1700s, Europe and America were chiefly agrarian rural societies. Most people had small workshops or worked out of their homes in what was called a cottage industry. Innovations such as the Water Frame, Spinning Jenny, and Steam Engine revolutionized the textile industry and culminated in a boost to the economy. These inventions sparked the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in England, and the new technology propelled the country's shift to a manufacturing and urban society. Eventually, the revolution spread to other countries.
Events like these were common and expected from the work in most factories. Factories were not only dangerous to the people inside, but the people outside and the environment as
Over the course of the 20th century, many significant changes were conceived and executed by the field of public health. These improvements are no less relevant today, and from the beginning, they have aided us all. However, there is a major achievement which underscores the safety and good health of the historically downtrodden: bettering work conditions for labourers in need of social change. Not only was this movement important for public health, but it gave the exploited working class a voice, allowing the affected public to organise and fight for better conditions themselves. Before any work was done in favour of making labour safer, manual work was a very dangerous job.
However, overpopulation of people led to horrible health and working conditions of the laborers to the unsanitary daily lives of the citizens. For example in document 2, Edwin Chadick, a health reformer explains how overpopulation lead to diseases and horrible health conditions. He starts of by explaining how, “atmospheric impurities from decomposing animal and vegetable substances , damp and filth, and overcrowded dwellings,” of of the lower working class people caused diseases. Leading to the deaths of many, the lifespan of the working class population became lower due to the industrial revolution. The point of view of this document is of a health reformer, Chadwick.
Cholera had initially touched base in Britain, from Chinese importing ships, in 1831. The poor got to be powerless to Cholera, since they dwelled in swarmed lodging. Cholera could without much of a stretch spread in extensive urban areas, in particular London. Streams in these urban areas were allotted a double reason. The waterways were a wellspring of H₂O as well as, a sewage transfer.
During the Industrial Revolution, it was not only a time of change for the economy, but also for many towns and villages in England. What was once a respectably sized village in the late eighteenth century turned into the bustling city of Manchester during the nineteenth century. Although the revolution saw the country pushed forth into a new era of productivity, it spelled horror for the working class. Issues in Manchester were rampant, such as the deplorable living conditions, the working man being squashed beneath the iron heel of the businessmen, the decline of religion, and pollution of the once great country. This yielded several reactions from various sources, including that of scholars who smelled socialism on the rise, the creation
The Industrial Revolution quickly and drastically altered the production of goods. Beginning in the mid-1700s, the Industrial Revolution shifted to the use of machinery and factory-based labor. Although the Industrial Revolution was a beneficial period for the production of goods, the detrimental effects, such as widespread pollution, horrible living conditions, and inhumane child labor, outweigh the benefits of the time period. The Industrial Revolution transformed the way goods were produced and manufactured, by changing to the use of machinery and factory-based labor.
The Industrial Revolution was the urbanization of rural areas, and the development of factories and machines. These transformations allowed economic prosperity and brought along tremendous plusses, and were still seeing the success in these up-comings today. “…Industrial Revolution spread to the
Effects of the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution was an important event in history. It brought about many positives during its time. For instance, kids were well fed, educated, and clothed. There were plenty of negatives, as well. One very sad example was the machine injuries that happened to both children and adults.
In 16th-century England, health was at an all-time low, diseases were spreading fast, and medicine was extremely limited due to the fact the people had little to no knowledge about the human body. The underlying cause of the 16th-century illnesses was the extreme lack of sanitation and hygiene, especially in large cities such as London. rather than rural areas (Pearson, 409). These cities had all the conditions to sustain epidemic diseases, filth, squalor, massive numbers of people packed together in small dwellings as well as being infested with rodents (Pearson, 413).
But geographical environments and social conditions could increase the mortality dramatically. For example, Allhallows London Wall was one of the poorest, crowing and unsanitary area in London and its mortality was 508 per thousand live
Rats, roaming the streets, full of gutter and trash, the rats had fleas that were like they were trapped and trying to become free, but it was pretty easy to do so. The fleas would jump off the rats onto humans, causing people 's skin to turn blacker than the sky at night; people were dying numerously, it was said at the time that it was caused by bad smell, and cured by bathing, but it wasn’t. Not only did people at the time have what was known as “ The black plague” but on top of that children were getting chicken pox and dying, cholera which also people thought at the time was from bad smell, but was actually the disgusting, used, water people would drink. It was awful to have a disease in Victorian Britain. Diseases in Victorian Britain and what the diseases were, how they were thought to be cured, how they actually were cured, and how it was like for people who had the disease is what I am talking about.