Source D shows a report from the Jarrow Public Health Committee, published in 1933. Source E shows the Death rates and infant mortality rates in Jarrow and nationally, also published by the Jarrow Public Health Committee

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How useful are sources D and E in helping you to understand the effects of the depression upon people in Jarrow?

Source D shows a report from the Jarrow Public Health Committee, published in 1933. Source E shows the Death rates and infant mortality rates in Jarrow and nationally, also published by the Jarrow Public Health Committee. They are both useful to some extent as it shows how the depression affected Jarrow.

Source D is useful because it is part of a report from the Jarrow Public Health Committee; we can trust the person who wrote this as they are writing to inform the government about Jarrow. It is useful as they describe a house in Jarrow to show the effects of the depression upon a normal family. There may be some amount of bias in this as it is written to inform the government about people who live in Jarrow so the author of the report may be exaggerating.

In source D it says ''we enter a tunnel-like passage with bare walls''. The author is clearly biased as he is not only using facts but opinions. He said ''tunnel-like passage''. He is using his own opinion of the passage. He also says ''and then go up a dark bare wooden staircase''. This also backs up my theory that he is using his own opinions because he said ''dark'' and ''bare'', this is suggesting that this house is in poor condition.

The author is implying that the living room is not what a living room looks like by saying ''at the top we enter the ''living-room'' of a two bedroomed house''. By putting the living-room in inverted commas we picture this living room in poor condition and not what a living room usually looks like. He says that it is a two-bedroomed house, we then assume that a very small family live here. Later it says ''a family of seven live here''. This shocks the readers as they have said that it is a two bedroomed house. This helps us understand the effects of the depression upon people in Jarrow because a family of seven is forced to live in a two-bedroomed house. We can see that the effects of the depression upon people in Jarrow were severe. They were clearly very poor after the depression.

The author is trying to make the reader sympathise with Jarrow because he says ''it is a small room, perhaps ten feet square''. It shows that the people of Jarrow were very poor as they had to fit a family of seven into a two-bedroomed house, with a small living room perhaps ten feet square''. He is using opinions, we know this because instead of stating that the living room is ten feet square, the author says that ''it is a small room''.
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Source D shows that the people are not living in good standards because the author says ''the room is crowded and hot''. This is useful to us because it shows that they have to suffer in their own house. By having to share the living room between seven people we can imagine that it must get very hot and stuffy. This shows that they do not have perfect living conditions.

We can infer that the houses have not had any new furniture from the report because it says ''a fire burns in an old-fashioned grate''. This ...

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