The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844: with a Preface written in 1892Engels, Friedrich
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The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844: with a Preface written in 1892
Engels, Friedrich
Great Britain -- Economic conditions; Working class -- Great Britain
It is clear from other tables given by Holland that the mortality in the
_streets_ of the second class is 18 per cent. greater, and in the streets
of the third class 68 per cent. greater than in those of the first class;
that the mortality in the _houses_ of the second class is 31 per cent
greater, and in the third class 78 per cent. greater than in those of the
first class; that the mortality is those bad streets which were improved,
decreased 25 per cent. He closes with the remark, very frank for an
English bourgeois: {107}
"When we find the rate of mortality four times as high in some streets
as in others, and twice as high in whole classes of streets as in
other classes, and further find that it is all but invariably high in
those streets which are in bad condition, and almost invariably low in
those whose condition is good, we cannot resist the conclusion that
multitudes of our fellow-creatures, _hundreds of our immediate
neighbours_, are annually destroyed for want of the most evident
precautions."
The Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Working-Class contains
information which attests the same fact. In Liverpool, in 1840, the
average longevity of the upper-classes, gentry, professional men, etc.,
was thirty-five years; that of the business men and better-placed
handicraftsmen, twenty-two years; and that of the operatives,
day-labourers, and serviceable class in general, but fifteen years. The
Parliamentary reports contain a mass of similar facts.
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