How Leeds Was Like Durning the Victorian Times

Life in Leeds was ghastly m any(prenominal) sources tell me this from pictures, to rhymes, reports and drawings Leeds was a well polluted and unhygienic place, Leeds also did non fork over any proper sewage system causing diseases to spread killing ingenuous civilians. First pictures of Leeds Steel works which was taken in 1864 show me that factories created pernicious gases that normal everyday public inhaled. My first source also shows that from a distant view the air itself was murky and unclear. Source 1As I mentioned before at that place are many sketches by anon. artists who express their art from what they can see around their environment. This gives me more establish that Leeds was very dirty and polluted. Source 2 Rhymes and songs were created by the the great unwashed (most credibly the children) who inhabited Leeds at the time one of the most famous rhymes were The Aire below is doubly dyed and damned The air above with lurid locoweed is crammed The one flows flo w rateing foul as Charons Styx, Its poisonous vaporisation in the other mix.What it is really translating is the water below (the river AIre) is sorry in an unnatural state and it is supposedly damned, the air above is crammed with hepatotoxic smoke, its poisonous vapours reaching us. Therefore it was commonly known that the Leeds was colly and alter with pollution. In 1842 Edwin Chadwick, a politician who was trying to make improvements and reforms to the conditions of townships and cities conducted an investigating into Sanitary conditions of the labouring population.Edwin apply topical anesthetic investigators to provide evidence of urban public health conditions. A doctor, Robert Baker, provided information about the hygiene and how it was change Leeds. Of the 586 streets of Leeds, 68 only are paved by the town, ie, by the local authorities the remainder are either paved by the owners or are partially paved, or are totally unpaved, with the surfaces broken in every di rection, and ashes and filth of every description accumulated upon many of them of the 68 streets 9 are not sewered at all, and ten only partly so nay it is only within the three or quadruple years past that a sewer has been completed . This statement tells me that there were 586 streets in Leeds and only 68 were filled with pavements. Filth and Ash filled every direction in those 68 pampered streets 19 of them did not have a sewage system at all Only 10 streets had them however the sewage system has only been completed 3 or 4 years ago. This source is reliable because as a local doctor Robert Baker had experienced the severe horrific cholera irruption of 1832.By 1838 as a town councillor, had contributed to a statistical survey of the town and went on to become a factory inspector by 1858. cholera and other diseases broke out because of the poor sewer system when civilians had to economize themselves half of their waste was absorbed by the ground and was then entered the stream which people drank from While the other half just flowed through the streets postponement to infect civilians with putrid bacteria and filth .Public people also used to wash and bath in the river AIre causing its natural water discolor to die out and for it to be swarmed with dirt and bacteria. For my conclusion I fluid stand by my decision that Leeds during the Victorian times was a filthy, foul place. Its water was not safe to drink and was revolting, although the simple workmen who build hundreds of factories hoping that it would not hurt the ozone lair still poisoned the air that the poor Victorian people breathed and lived in.