York: A Study, Rowntree & Poverty
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The City of York
- Pop = 78,000 by 1900
- Ouse and Foss
- City centre within the Roman-Medieval Walls.
Housing
- Wide variation in standard of living.
- Wealthy lived in suburbs.
- Workers lived in terraced streets.
- Poorest lived in slums.
- 3/4 of York houses had four or more rooms (above national average).
Utilities
- Better houses had:
- Private water taps.
- Toilets.
- Gas / Electricity supply.
- 1890s:
- Sewer system built, sewage now treated rather than thrown in the river.
- Most houses in slum areas shared water standpipes and midden privies.
- 1897: Municipal supply of electricity began.
Communications
- York was well placed at the centre of the North-Eastern Railway network.
- Ouse and Foss both navigable.
- System of horse-drawn trams connected suburbs to city centre.
- Electric trams introduced in 1910.
People of York
- Tripled since 1830 by 1900.
- c.70% of York's population was 'working class'.
- Known as an orderly and calm city.
- Population concerns:
- Concerns for 'physical efficiency' of the British population.
- Nutrition, health and morality questioned.
Health
- Death rates in York lower than national average.
- But the rates in slums were double national average.
- Poorest areas lacked sanitation or fresh water.
- Disease rife, affecting wage earners.
- Improvements:
- Public baths.
- Sewage improvements.
- New cemetaries.
- Local medical officer.
- County Hospital & Fever Hospital.
Working Classes
- York did…
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