Explain The Living Conditions In Australia At The Turn Of The 20th Century
Living Conditions in Australia at the turn of the 20th Century.
Life in Australia at the turn of the 20th Century was dangerous especially for the lower class, the terrible slum conditions made life difficult and hygiene was not regularly practiced, life was a constant battle against all sorts of infectious diseases, and yet the City Council did little to nothing at all to improve these conditions. Life was even worse when the unsanitary environment became accompanied by the Bubonic Plague, though only about a hundred died, many people agree that the Black Death was a key factor that helped improve the lives of the poverty stricken citizens of Australia.
In this report, two sources relating to the living conditions of Australia during the …show more content…
“As was often observed by visitors, it was remarkably ancient looking for a comparatively young city. Its narrow crooked streets and antique buildings were likened to those of London, the benchmark, since Dickens and Mayhew, for the sinister side city life.” The extract gives us lots of detail and tells us that thorughout the 1900’s visitors to the slums of Sydney, were often unsatisfied with what the poor areas of the city provided, because at the time, the metropolis was considered relatively young, yet the facade did not do well to promote the life conditions. To make things worse the narrow, crooked streets provided a great refuge for notorious activity, for example the use of narcotics, such as opium, which was fairly common during the 20th …show more content…
The plague had caused Australia to suffer greatly, but still it paved the way, as a heavily motivated large scale movement had begun and so began the improvements and mass demolition of especially the slums. The progress at the turn of the century was zealous,many of Sydney’s oldest buildings were torn down, in an effort to improve the lives of the lower class
By the end of the black death, around 1750 people were driven out of their homes and forcibly quarantined at North Head. Homes, outhouses and other property were toppled, fences knocked down, people turned out on to the streets. The districts of Sydney became closed off by sanitary inspectors and public cleansing teams. Some people agree that the Black Death helped improve living conditions, by gaining public attention and raising awareness of the horrible sanitary standards.
Life in Australia at the turn of the 20th Century was dangerous especially for the lower class, the terrible slum conditions made life difficult and hygiene was not regularly practiced, life was a constant battle against all sorts of infectious diseases, and yet the City Council did little to nothing at all to improve these conditions. Life was even worse when the unsanitary environment became accompanied by the Bubonic Plague, though only about a hundred died, many people agree that the Black Death was a key factor that helped improve the lives of the poverty stricken citizens of Australia.
In this report, two sources relating to the living conditions of Australia during the …show more content…
“As was often observed by visitors, it was remarkably ancient looking for a comparatively young city. Its narrow crooked streets and antique buildings were likened to those of London, the benchmark, since Dickens and Mayhew, for the sinister side city life.” The extract gives us lots of detail and tells us that thorughout the 1900’s visitors to the slums of Sydney, were often unsatisfied with what the poor areas of the city provided, because at the time, the metropolis was considered relatively young, yet the facade did not do well to promote the life conditions. To make things worse the narrow, crooked streets provided a great refuge for notorious activity, for example the use of narcotics, such as opium, which was fairly common during the 20th …show more content…
The plague had caused Australia to suffer greatly, but still it paved the way, as a heavily motivated large scale movement had begun and so began the improvements and mass demolition of especially the slums. The progress at the turn of the century was zealous,many of Sydney’s oldest buildings were torn down, in an effort to improve the lives of the lower class
By the end of the black death, around 1750 people were driven out of their homes and forcibly quarantined at North Head. Homes, outhouses and other property were toppled, fences knocked down, people turned out on to the streets. The districts of Sydney became closed off by sanitary inspectors and public cleansing teams. Some people agree that the Black Death helped improve living conditions, by gaining public attention and raising awareness of the horrible sanitary standards.