the impact on peoples living conditions

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    • influx of thousands and thousands of people into small market towns and cathedral cities that had the fortune or misfortune to have one or more industries there had a catastrophic imapct on the existing housing and sanitation provision.
    • explosion of 'filth diseases' - typhoid, diphtheria, TB, scarlet fever and cholera
    • measles and whooping cough became endemic