THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND

One good thing that happened was that people had jobs and poverty decreased and the way of living changed from houses in the country side to joined up terraces in cities with just a small backyard, an out door bathroom and two small rooms. These houses were so close together that allowed diseases such as cholera, tuberculosis and many more illnesses to spread. The living quality grew and people became richer. New medicines were created and antiseptics so they could do major operations and seal the wound produced with antiseptics so the wounds didn’t get infected. Vaccines were discovered, so this means diseases like small pox fought against easier, so less people died of diseases. For example if they had to cut of an arm or a leg or something like that they used anesthetic because before they did that, when they were cutting some thing the patients suffered so much that they died. People worked 12-16 hours a day. People who worked in mines, iron foundries or textiles had risks of dying. In mines you could be drowned, get squished or be in an explosion. In iron foundries you could be burned to death or be dissolved by the red-hot liquid iron. In textiles a moving part of a machine could get trapped one of your arms, legs or anything, That’s why women tied up their hair so it didn’t get trapped by the machinery. Children were used to go in between the machinery because they were small and agile.

The Industrial Revolution was due to many different reasons. I have explained the factors that I feel are most important, but there are other reasons such as the improvement of agriculture and people said to the government that they should be given the right to have their own minds and do what they want to do. In conclusion, the main reason of which the industrial revolution took place was the rise in population, more people meant more things had to be produced such as clothes, and housing, coal and industry grew.