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Housing, general living conditions, diseases and water supply in the 19th…
Housing, general living conditions, diseases and water supply in the 19th century
Housing
One whole family (usually ranging over 10 people) would live in a room in thin, tall house.
A lot of homes didn't have glass windows and would have them bricked up inside to stop the spread of diseases coming through the windows, they did this because it was tax to pay for glass.
It was the poorer people that had to live in the smaller houses as they couldn't afford the bigger ones.
Living conditions
If they needed the toilet in the middle of the night and didn't want to walk outside to the privy they were expected to use a chamber pot underneath their bed and would throw it out onto the streets in the morning.
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Diseases
Chorea- Chorea is a disease caused by water and once you are diagnosed with it you're expected to live up to 7 days. Some of the effects of Chorea include: turning your skin black or blue (bruise-like), diarrhea and dehydration.
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Yellow fever- Yellow fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease transmitted by infected mosquitoes. The "yellow" in the name refers to the jaundice that affects some patients.
Water supply
The water supply was from the river and would often include human waste, animal parts, mud and sticks
Back then, they expected water to be brown and have floating parts in it.
