Friars Bush - The sights and the supporting sources (A-J), fully explain the social problems in the 19th century. Do you agree?

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The sights and the supporting sources (A-J), fully explain the social problems in the 19th century. Do you agree?

Belfast in the 19th had a variety of social problems, it was possible for me to examine some of these by using the given sources A – J, a previous visit to friars bush allowed me to understand and develop my understanding in the social problems of Belfast. According to source A, Cholera first broke out in the 1930’s, this outbreak lead to 400 deaths and recurring epidemics for 30 years. Records in source D state that ‘there were 2833 victims and 418 deaths’. This resulted in the opening of a ‘Cholera pit’ placed in Friar’s Bush shown in source B.

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The Irish Famine arrived in 1845-50 causing many social problems. According to Cholera records ‘after the famine an wave of fever and dysentery carried off 2487’, people. Typhus and cholera were still around and this lead to the opening of the cholera pit at Friar’s Bush, shown in source A. Famine and disease caused large scale migration of rural Catholics into Belfast in search of work and a massive influx of beggars. Many migrants found employment in the city's expanding linen factories and shipyards. However, wages were low, and both Protestant and Catholic workers, not yet fully segregated into discrete ...

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