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Question 1

Slum housing

Answer 1

poorly built houses cramped into as small a space as possible, which provided the perfect breeding ground for disease

Question 2

Types of slum housing

Answer 2

Cellar dwellings and back to back housing

Question 3

Problems with slum housing

Answer 3

Poor ventilation, damp, cramped, diseases, sewerage, hygiene, rubbish and clean drinking water.

Question 4

Cellar dwellings

Answer 4

-One room cellars below ground level.
-As a result the small rooms were damp and poorly ventilated
-Where poorest families lived.

Question 5

Back to back housing

Answer 5

-Built in a court grid system.
-The rows of houses were literally built back to back one room deep.

Question 6

Inside of slum houses in general.

Answer 6

No toilet or running water inside and sometimes even no windows or a fireplace.
-They were damp, cold and badly ventilated.

Question 7

Inside of cellars.

Answer 7

Flooded in bad weather and might be an inch or so deep in stagnant water the whole year around.

Question 8

Attic rooms.

Answer 8

-Cramped and stuffy with no way of escaping if the building caught fire.
-The poorest families lived there.

Question 9

Who shared a toilet?

Answer 9

-no sewerage system
-each court or street shared an outside privy

Question 10

Where did the waste go from a toilet go?

Answer 10

• Into a Cesspit
  -Landlords would not pay for it to be emptied until they overflowed.
  This meant that human waste could filter through into the water people drank for.

Question 11

WHat where the two options for a toilet?

Answer 11

AN outside privvy shared by a court or street or a bucket in the corner.

Question 12

Diseases

Answer 12

Cholera, a water born disease causing dirrohea and dehydration.
Typhoid, a bacterial disease causing fever, headaches and stomach pain
Influenza

Question 13

WHat made it a good breeding ground fro disease?

Answer 13

DIrty drinking water, poor cramped housing, lack of toilets, damp rooms, rubbish and filth in the streets.

Question 14

Working hours

Answer 14

12-16 hours a day

Question 15

Wages

Answer 15

Wages were low factory owners wanted to make as much money as possible

Question 16

WHy children

Answer 16

Their small size meant they could do jobs adults couldn’t do such as fit down mines easily or fit in between or underneath machinery.
They could be paid cheaply, therefore saving money for factory owners.

Question 17

Trappers

Answer 17

Children whose job it was to sit in mines (alone and in the dark) and open and close doors in the mine to let older children come through with carts of coal.

Question 18

Mule scavengers

Answer 18

Children whose jobs it was to crawl and underneath the spinning machines (while it was operating) and pick up pieces of cotton.

Question 19

Piecers

Answer 19

CHildren whose job it was to lean over the spinning rule and repair broken threads

Question 20

Workhouses

Answer 20

-For the poorest of poor
- Was a building where the poorest people could live for free - they would be provided with shelters and food for free. They were extremely harsh and run like prisons. Those in the workhouses worked all day for no wage.

Question 21

Pauper apprentices.

Answer 21

• A child how was bought by factory owners to work
• the factory owner was responsible for their apprentices general welfare including the provisions food.

Question 22

Dangers children faced at work

Answer 22

These jobs were extremely risky and could lead to death or physical deformities. It was likely for children to lose hands and fingers working in factories due to repetitive work.