ays and did not have adequate facilities. The following extracts demonstrate this point:
             "Passing along a rough bank, among stakes and washing lines, one penetrates into...one storied huts, in most of which there is no proper floor; kitchen, living and sleeping room all in one. In such a hole, scarcely five feet long by six broad, I found two beds...a staircase and chimney-place exactly filled the room, in several others I found nothing..."
             Housing was cramped into the centre of the towns, close to the factories, and people had to crowd in as best they could, one investigated reported:
             "In a cellar in Liverpool, I found a mother and her daughters sleeping in a bed of straw in one corner. In the other corner, three sailors had their beds"
             The three worst problems associated with this kind of substandard housing were water supply, sewage disposal and rubbish disposal.
             A good water supply is essential for hygiene. It is relied upon for drinking and for washing, clothes, food, crockery and ourselves. But in many towns, the homes of the poor did not have taps. In Highgate in London, water was purchased by the bucketful; in Hyde, near Manchester people paid one shilling a week to water-carriers, who brought water into the town on carts. Many other people used stand-pipes in the street. Also at this time water was not constantly
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