Environmental Impacts
During the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution created dangerous environmental effects. One of them was air pollution. The factories had fog and gasses coming from their chimneys, as seen in the picture on the left. This caused people to be infected with lung diseases and it was hard for people to keep their houses and clothes clean from the dust. They also had water pollution. The water in rivers and canals were polluted from sewage and waste from the factories. The people living there used that water to cook and clean. As a result, many people got sick quickly from what they called "King Cholera" and died. The people suffered from urbanization as well. To make room for the factory workers and the large amounts of people moving to the city, citizens built more houses. They were in poor quality though. It was always crowded with too many people, and there weren't enough bathrooms or windows. There were so many new houses that small villages near coalfields grew bigger and closer to the factories. The people even had to cope with the noise. From being around the loud machines for long periods of time, a lot of the factory workers grew deaf, as well as the citizens in the city. The factories were so loud they could hear it everywhere. The citizens were very frustrated with it because it rarely ceased.
-Chanah Lennon
-Chanah Lennon