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The flu epidemic

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Richmond was a very poor area

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WWI just ended

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During this time the Spanish flu outbreak occurred

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The 1919s saw the lead up to the Great Depression in 1929. This depression was a time of great unemployment and lowering in living conditions.

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The living conditions were very bad, and most of the people there were very poor. Richmond was known as 'Struggletown' and for good reason. People would destroy parts of their houses to burn for warmth, and many starved.

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Richmond was a very dangerous place in 1919. There was a high risk of death due to poor, cold weather, crime/gangsters and diesease

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Richmond was a very dangerous place in 1919. There was a high risk of death due to poor, cold weather, crime/gangsters and diesease

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There was a big gap between those who were well off and those who were poor.

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People in the Richmond slums lived in small, cheap and cramped together houses known as terrace houses. Some of these houses had only 3 rooms. The floorboards of the houses were often torn up by families and used as firewood. Shown here is a more modern day area of terrace housing: the housing at the time would have been far less elegant.