1. Poor Housing = Poor Health
Lesson starter:
In what ways does your home keep you healthy? Write down your ideas.

2. Today we will…
Understand the connection between poor housing and poor health around 1900

3. A lack of food was only one cause of poor health around 1900
Poor housing was a major factor
Doctors and scientists did not know as much about germs and bacteria as we do now
However, they were aware that those living in poor housing were more likely to be ill

4. Task 1
As the following pictures appear write down what you see

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11. Urban Problems Urban means cities or built up areas Overcrowding
Poor drains, sewage and sanitation
Lack of electricity
Outdoor toilets
Dirty running water
Damp conditions
Closes were dark and dingy

12. How does it damage health?
Task 2
Housing Problem
How does it damage health?
No running water
Overcrowding
Leaking roof/windows
Nowhere for children to play
Rubbish/waste piled up outside
Open sewers
Human waste thrown from windows
Shared outside toilets

15. Task 3
Source A
A lady remembers growing up in the 1880s in book many years later
We modernised it with an electric light and telephone. The house when rebuilt contained a large basement, three sitting rooms, a lounge-hall and seven bedrooms. All the rooms were warmed by a coal fire. There were nursery meals to be carried up and down, hot water to the bedrooms.
We had a nanny, a palour maid, a housemaid and a cook. Later we had a manservant for £70 a year. The cook earned £28, the nurse £40. we spent about 12 shillings (60p) each week on a food and cleaning materials. We bought coal at 15 shillings (75p) a ton).
1.Evaluate the usefulness of the source as evidence of housing in Britain in the late 19th century?

16. Model Answer
The source is quite useful for a few reasons but has drawbacks.
The source is a primary source because it comes from the memory of a lady who experienced the events that we are studying.
She gives quite a few details of her life in a middle class home making the description useful.
However, she only describes a nice middle class home. The source also fails to mentionthe more common slum housing.