Victorian Age
Nicola,Emanuele,Gianluca,Giovanni.
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In Victorian times English population grew due to improved living conditions and a massive wave of immigration,especially from Ireland at the time poor.
After the raise in house prices and rents, the poor population were forced to settle in smaller and dirty houses called slums, in which people lived up to 30 per room.
The Victorian age is also the time in which states and the charities'charitable work behavior as affordable and socially appreciated by society ladies.
Extreme poverty had promoted the abandonment and the streets of London, from a survey of 1848, wandered more than 30.000 children.
Those children were naked, malnourished and sick, living by begging or theft.
Ate from the garbage and drank the water of open sewers of the slums, contracting almost always cholera and other diseases widespread in the slums.
The society thought that the poor are improvident beings, who have wasted their money in vices.
With this filosophy born poorhouses, hospices founded by the crown in which the poor people could find housing and employment. As described by Charles Dickens,in the poorhouses applies a very strict discipline, punishing schedule and corporal punishment. Accomodation for overnight were dirty and overcrowded: they could sleep there for up to 7 people per bed.
Despite the scandals that hit many poorhouses in London, such as the one reported by the Times in 1850 of a pregnant woman was left to die of hungers and fatigue on the stairs of hospitalization Southempton.