INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY INTHE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES
1. How many people lived in the area described in source 1? 2. What nationality were most of the people described in source 1? 3. What colour was the drinking water described in source 2? 4. What killed the child in source 3? 5. Why was the child in source 3 not buried? 6. How many people lived in the room described in source 4?
7. With help from the textbook, select the three most important medical developments made during this era and list them in order of importance on the ranking ladder. Explain why you put the medical development that you did at number 1.
Follow-up question: Imagine that you lived in an area like those described in the sources above. Using the extracts about life in industrial Britain as inspiration, write a letter of complaint to a local politician about these conditions.
Include the following: ● ● Describe the housing conditions. ● ● Outline the sanitation issues. ● ● Explain what impact these issues have on the lives and health of people living there. ● ● Identify what you would like done about these issues. ●● Use descriptive and persuasive language.
