Question

What was the impact of the Industrial revolution on the health of the workers?

Answer 1

Instructions:
Discuss how the Industrial Revolution had an impact on the lives of the workers and what were the after-effects of it.

Solution:
The average lifespan of workers was lower than that of any other social group in cities: it was 15 years in Birmingham, 17 in Manchester, 21 in Derby. In the new industrial cities, people died at a younger age than in the villages. Half the children failed to survive beyond the age of five. The increase in the population of cities was because of immigrants, rather than by an increase in the number of children born to families who already lived there.

Deaths were primarily caused by epidemics of disease like cholera and typhoid that spread from the pollution of water, or tuberculosis from the pollution of air.