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19th century living conditions - Coggle Diagram
19th century living conditions
Diseases
Cholera was a killer disease and if you got it you would turn black and blue. You would get violently sick and have very bad diarrohea.
Smallpox was when you get a huge rash and it turned into puss filled blisters. The blisters would drop off and leave huge scars.
Typhoid was when you had headaches, fever and constipation. As well as terrible diarrohea. The germ lived in peoples urine and poo and sometimes contaminated food.
Tuberculosis was a disease that attacked the lungs. You would cough up blood, lose weight, get a fever, chest pains and shortness of breath. It could kill you. You could get it when someone sneezes and the germs passed to you.
Housing
No indoor toilets, you had to go outside and use the shared street toilet. Or, you would have a bucket in the corner of the room. This would be emptied now and again. A farmer would use it as manure.
Families lived in one room. They would share one bed and if they were lucky they'd have a table and a couple of chairs. The state of the room would be in poor repair. Landlords cared little about the state of the houses. There were no laws in what the state of the houses should be.
You wouldn't get much food to eat. If you were lucky you'd get a slice of bread and dripping. It could be hot in some cases.
Water supply
There water pump would be at the end of the street and everybody had to get it from that one pump
It came from the river but wasn't hygienic at all because there would be men weeing in it from the side, people taking a bath in it and lots of other dirty things. The river would be full of germs.
If they wanted water, they would have to take a bucket or some sort of container down to the pump and carry it back to their home.
There could be wee or poo floating around in the water or dead animals or rotting vegetables. The colour of the water would be brown but they thought this was normal as they hadn't seen clear water before.
Overcrowding
Families would live in one small room, they would sleep, wee, poo , cook their tea and wash all in the same room.
They would rent their room from a landlord or a factory/mill owner. Every home would be crowded because a family could have 10 children and two parents in one room so it would be very cramped and crowded.
There would be one bed which the whole family had to share. Although, one half of the family would go to work whilst the other half would be in bed. This process would continuously be repeated everyday.
If you lived in a cellar it would be even smaller and you could just have some straw to sleep on, or, if you were lucky you'd get to sleep on a mattress.