1. Life in the Industrial Age
The World of Cities

2. Population Boom
Population of Europe more than doubled between 1800 and 1900
Families in industrial nations had fewer children
Death rates declined due to:
Better medicine and hygiene
More food

3. Medicine Louis Pasteur Robert Koch William Morton Florence Nightingale
Proved that there was a connection between germs and diseases
Developed a vaccine for rabies
Developed a process for pasteurizing milk
Robert Koch
Identified the bacteria that caused tuberculosis
William Morton
Introduced anesthesia to relieve pain, which allowed doctors to perform more complicated operations
Florence Nightingale
Improved sanitary conditions in field hospitals and British hospitals
Founded the first school of nursing
Joseph Lister
Introduced the use of antiseptics to prevent infections

4. City Planning
Rich settled on the outskirts of the cities, while the poor settled in the center slums close to the factories.
New Inventions
Paved Streets
Street Lamps
Expanded Police and Fire Departments
Sewerage Systems
Skyscrapers

5. Working Conditions
Mutual Aid Societies – designed to help sick or injured workers
Unions – bargained on workers behalf, worked to improve conditions
Labor Laws
Limited or outlaws child labor
Banned the employment of women in mines
Limited work hours
Improved safety conditions
Pensions and Disability Insurance

6. Class work
In your group- create a graphic organizer that effectively discusses the inventions/innovations discussed in chapter 22 sections 1 and 2 (p ) and categorizes them as to social/economic/political advances.

7. There are a million fascinating facts and figures about the London Underground, but this rarely seen photograph reminds us just what an engineering feat the construction process was. Here we see the creation of the Central Line in 1898

8. Summer days of 1852: Hippo Obaysch is spotted taking a nap in the Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park. He was donated by Egypt in 1850 in exchange for English greyhounds and deerhounds, and he lived until 1878

9. As London became more industrialised, concern grew that historic parts of London were being lost. In response, the Society for Photographing the Relics of Old London photographed places such as Henry Dixon and Son's shop in Macclesfield Street, Soho, in 1883

10. Life on the Thames, or as photographer John Thomson called it in 1876, the 'Silent Highway'. Two sailors head down the river in a barge