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Throwing Garbage!
The household rubbish was thrown out into the narrow streets and the air was filled with black smoke from the factories chimneys. -
Disease Ridden...
Dirty streets and cramped living was a perfect ground for deseases. More than 31,000 people died during an outbreak of Cholera in 1832 and lots more killed by typhus, smallpox, and dysentery. -
Cholera Breakout
More than 20,000 people died in a particularly bad cholera outbreak in Paris. -
The Poor Act..
Edwin Chadwick, a lawyer who had designed the Poor Act, who came up with the idea of sewers and piped drinking water linked to people's living accommodation to cut the risk of infection from poor urban drainage. -
Taxes!!
The tax on soap was taken off, meaning poor people could but it and become more hygienic by washing with it. -
Diseases..
Around 700 Londoners died from smog in one day.The burning of coal during the Industrial Revolution eventually contributed to globing warming, which environmentalists are still battling today. -
Deaths
Between 1901 and 1970, deaths from diarrhoea and dysentery fell by around 12% in the Netherlands and England and Wales. -
Great London Smog
Killed around 4,000 people, British lawmakers introduced legislation to move industries to more rural areas. -
Acid Rain
British cities reported a 60 percent decrease in sulfur dioxide, a main ingredient for acid rain -
Still Occuring.
Adequate sanitation is still a major problem in the developing world.