City Heath Advocates by Sydney Shanahan

Health Concerns during the Industrial Revolution:

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- Smallpox, typhus, typhoid, dysentery, diphtheria, scarlet fever, tuberculosis and cholera were among the many illnesses that spread through the industrial cities.

-Overpopulation, malnutrition, and poor hygiene and sanitation assisted in the cultivation and spread of disease.

Industrial Revolution:

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The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

Critique of Industrialization

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"In one of these courts there stands directly at the entrance, at the end of the covered passage, a privy without a door, so dirty that the inhabitants can pass into and out of the court only by passing through foul pools of stagnant urine and excrement.

Such is the Old Town of Manchester, and on re-reading my description, I am forced to admit that instead of being exaggerated, it is far from black enough to convey a true impression of the filth, ruin, and uninhabitableness, the defiance of all considerations of cleanliness, ventilation, and health which characterise the construction of this single district, containing at least twenty to thirty thousand inhabitants."

Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1892), pp. 45, 48-53.

Factory Worker

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I was most commonly beaten.
Question: Severely?
Answer: Very severely, I thought.
Question: In those mills is chastisement towards the latter part of the day going on perpetually?
Answer: Perpetually.
Question: So that you can hardly be in a mill without hearing constant crying?
Answer: Never an hour, I believe.

Interview with Michael Crabtree (1832)

Child Labor

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1833

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City Health Advocates:

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City Health Advocates helped protect the people from deadly diseases and poor living conditions

Poor Health in Industrial Manchester

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Industrial Manchester from Kersal Moor (Painting by William Wylde, 1851)