list 4 out of 5 causes of unsanitary conditions in london at the time dickens wrote a christams carol?

Question

please help me this is about dickens and if u have any other info about him just tell me thanks

Answer 1

Report...from the Poor Law Commissioners on an Inquiry into the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain. London, 1842, pp. 369-372.]. Hope it helps :)
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/chadwick2.html

Answer 2

in order to heat their homes and business' they used either wood stoves and mainly COAL stoves, which put tons of soot into the air their had to breathe, not to mention they used outside clothes lines to dry their clothes and all this contamination came down on their clothes that they put on their bodies and the chemicals leached into their bodies this way too, plus thru their lungs from breathing..
their food was not refrigerated like our is, so a lot of it would be on the verge of going bad, and they would have to eat it anyways.
not to mention the poor food handling practices back then, someone would have to RELIEVE themselves, and they would not wash their hands, and the bacteria and fecal matter would end up in and on the food also contaminating it, causing people to get sick and or die..
they also used HORSES to move people and products around, and you know what happens after a horse eats, and then walks around, yes, he drops their mess right on the ground, the streets we full of the mess from the horses, and they did have a few street cleaners, but all they did was shovel it into buckets, they did not sanitize the street, so when anyone walked on the street or children played, they would carry small parts of fecal matter with them, into schools, into shops, into food areas, and into their homes..
not to mention the poor sanitation they had to remove the HUMANS waste products, this system would back up and flow into the streets also causing sickens.
so there are a few for you

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Answer 3

poor sewage system
coal burning heating systems caused bad air pollution
Poor hygeine at the time made people smell bad