OVER POPULATION

There are many points about population and health such as pollution, bad hygiene, bad conditions and small houses, child workers, long working hours and little money.

Overpopulation in the industrial revolution was caused by the new inventions and factories, the owners of the factories wanted more workers to make more products due to the demand for even more products. So people moved to the cities to get jobs and more products, but from the greediness of the factory owners they started to employ children to work, these children got not much money and long working hours, the same as the adults.

People couldn’t afford houses as well as their not being enough space in the city which meant 2-3 families had to live together in small houses which meant diseases and sicknesses were easy to spread, another reason for the industrial revolution for having poor health conditions is that the pollution, because their were many factories.

Cause:

The causes are that factory owners were becoming much more greedy as well as the demand for more and more products. The factories population caused very bad pollution, small houses allowed diseases and illnesses to spread.

Effect:

The effects are that people died from diseases and illnesses overall, but mostly in small houses. The effect of demand of more products and the greediness of the factory owners is that children would have to start working, also longer hours and not much money.

Long Term Effect:

Long term effects from this are the loss of family and friends due to death, pollution from the factories