Problems of towns

• Problems of towns:

  There were no laws governing the quality of buildings, they built as many dwellings as they could to ensure maximum income
• Houses were crammed together, many had no foundations, they were damp lacked ventilation.
• Very few had any form of sanitation, sometimes there was a privy shared between houses
• All water had to be fetched by hand from a communal pump,

  Clothes were washed by hand.

  Overcrowding, poor ventilation, damp, living in cellars
• Effects of poor housing:

  The awful living conditions were an ideal environment for disease to spread

  TB, diphtheria,measles,cholera and influenza were just a few diseases which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives
• Average life expectancy for the labouring class in manchester of just 17
• There were no rubbish collectors, no street clearers or sewers, and no fresh running water.