Industrial Pollution and Public Health Discussion HIST 105-18 2/20 by Julian Dodson

Lauren D, Ariel C, Soren A, Alyssa K.

2026-02-20 19:27:24 UTC

The water sources were heavily impacted because of all the sludge (feces, urine, etc.) that would pile up and run off into the water sources. It give people cholera when they drank the water and bathe themselves it would lead to infection.
- "In dry weather a long string of the most disgusting, black-ish green, slime pools are left standing on this bank, from the depths of which bubbles of miasmatic gas constantly arise and give forth a stench unendurable even on the bridge forty or fifty feet above the surface of the stream"
- "The interposition of the labour of going out and bringing home water from a distance acts as an obstacle to the formation of better habits..."
Because of industrialization the people were being worked too much to make consumer goods leading to them being forced to work more instead of caring for their own personal health leading to mortality rates in younger populations, the youngest being 15 years old.

Alana Martin-Foley, Aubrey Manikhot, Blake Day

2026-02-20 19:28:04 UTC

From the articles, we can notice that the industrial life style mostly consisted of terrible living conditions and how the water was unreliable. Water, a necessity to every day life, was poorly taken care of and very scarce. We can conclude that these issues weren't at the top of the list for fixing due to upper class viewing it as "not that bad". "The supply of water is often very deficient. There is no water-company and the water is not conveyed into the houses even in the wealthy inhabitants". "Although the fever-wards are well arranged, and every comfort and attention provided for the patients, there is general dislike on the part of the poor to be removed to them from their own houses, except in cases of actual necessity...".
Regarding human health and industrialization, Chadwick reports seem dramatic to living conditions with no direct data of it. More assumptions and descriptions of the struggling living areas. Looking at a table, we can interpret that most of the disease deaths involve minors, who "decay by nature". There isn't really anything natural of a minor decaying, showing that the living conditions weren't up to date with health issues.

Charlie, Chase, Sarah, Eleri, Eduardo, Lauren

2026-02-20 19:29:16 UTC

Urbanization takes space from natural land. Air was polluted from burning coal as well as waste. "Below it on the river there are several tanneries which fill the whole neighbourhood with the stench of animal putrefaction." "In dry weather, a long string of the most disgusting, blackish-green, slime pools are left standing on this bank, from the depths of which bubbles of miasmatic gas constantly arise and give forth a stench unendurable even on the bridge forty or fifty feet above the surface of the stream." Manufacturing proceeded without consideration of the environmental impacts. "I may therefore with propriety say, that the poor of Stirling are often not properly supplied with water for the purposes stated in the query."
People were not prepared to deal with the byproducts and waste that came from production and the population density. Working conditions were extremely poor and there was no care for preventing disease. For example, mining coal gave workers asthma and respiratory damage. Overall, safety and health initiatives could not keep up with the rapid progression of industrialization.

Owen Coen,Jose Negrete,Kora Murphy, Alexandra Cleveland, Jessie Kruger

2026-02-20 19:29:20 UTC

1) These documents tell us that the living conditions were very poor and were affecting different class systems. The air was dark and smoggy, and the water was very dirty, which infected people with cholera and other diseases. We can conclude that people's health was very poor as a result. Our first quote, "Everywhere heaps of debris, refuse, and offal; standing pools for gutters, and a stench which alone would make it impossible for a human being in any degree civilized to live in such a district" shows us just how terrible the living conditions were, and how they were nearly impossible for a human to thrive and lice healthily in. Our second quote, "Grove and shroud hill, the house is dirty old, and tumbled down, and the construction of the side street utterly horrible" shows that people lived in close quarters that were inhumane. Besides the city itself being disgusting, people were forced to live in close contact, which again, spread disease and diminished the quality of life.

2) From the statistics provided, we can conclude that people did not have good healthcare, and the health of the working class was not a priority, as people were dying very young from diseases like asthma and influenza from poor working and living conditions.

Charla Mayo, Sofia Crespo, Leeia Mitchell, Aidan Siu, Felicity Mariano, Mackenzie Huggins, Scout Brown

2026-02-20 19:30:09 UTC

1.) We think that these reports tell us that there was poor living conditions, bad hygiene, was water supply (lack of and gross water), polluted air and over population of people.

2.) One quote from Engles showing the filth and living conditions was "Everywhere heaps of debris, refuse and offal; standing in pools for gutters, and a stench which along would make it impossible for a human being in any degree civilized to live in such a district". Another quote is in Chadwicks report and it is describing the water conditions during this time, "The supply of water is often deficient, there is no water company, and the water is not conveyed into the house even of the wealthy inhabitants". This shows how there was a lack of water that led to uncleanliness. With a lack of water, they had no way to be clean.

2.) We can conclude that industrialization lead to a lot of deaths for the lower-class working people. Laborers and miners were often dying at younger ages and died of common deaths (often asthma related) due to their jobs. Industrialization likely led to awful living conditions, over population and uncleanliness. It seems to have negatively impacted the health of specifically lower class peoples.

Meilina Tabon, Rian alabiso, and Giana Atencio.

2026-02-20 19:32:50 UTC

Industrialization of Manchester, ruined their living conditions and affected there health because in source 2 it stated that many of them sick and hungry. Living conditions were not suitable to make/have a healthily life.
- “Everything which here arouses horror and indignation is of recent origins, belongs to the industrial epoch”
- “So dirty inhabitants can pass into and out of the court only by passing through foul pools of stagnant urine and excrement”
Together the 2 documents should that industrialization in the 19 century damaged the natural environment created unhealthy living conditions in cities, and led to higher death rates among the working class.

Ryan Kinney, Barry Morrissette, Kirby Vorhees, Jack Stevens, and Brunel Madzou

ryanekinney — 2026-02-20 19:35:35 UTC

1 Some environmental impacts of the industrial revolution were rampant pollution and filth in the streets of cities, especially the poorer parts with some people even describing the cities as a "hell on earth" and large amounts of smoke from the coal burning plants, one source says that to understand "how little of civilization he may share and yet live it is only necessary to travel hither" along with another source stating that many people have "heaps of filth close to their doors" highlighting the terrible, dirty conditions the poor had to deal with.

2 We can assume that the industrial revolution drastically decreased the health of the people through overcrowding the poor into slums that were unfit for life, to clouds of toxic chemicals that were produced from the coal burning factories, that would do irreparable damage to the lungs of all those who breathed it in. Even the drinking water was polluted with waste from all sorts of sources.

Treyson Bohr, Dylan Dean

2026-02-20 19:49:49 UTC

1) in the first article, the author says "At the bottom flows, or rather stagnates, the irk, a narrow, coal-black, foul smelling stream, full of debris and refuse, which it deposits on the shallower right bank". The author is talking about the view on a bridge where the river it passes over is highly contaminated and due to the neglect of the environmental impacts of industrialization. their need for profit via the coal plants was the start of valuing profit over the environment as shown by the coal black river. in the second article, the author says "the occupations of the poorer classes are chiefly colliers, laborer's... The houses of those applying for parochial medical relief which I have visited have been dirty and crowded, the habits of the working classes here being generally improvident and dirty, many parties forming heaps of filth close to their doors". due to the richer class requirement of having a more organized city, they sacrificed the well being of the lower class areas to effectively trap them in a unventilated, poorly sewage house, combining this with their already impoverished area caused a epidemic of cholera.

2) due to industrialization, people have been overworked and have been put in extremely poor conditions that have decreased their life expectancy. due to this, worker are more likely to die to work injuries or due to their work environment and on top of that, there weren't effective medical treatments to alleviate illnesses.