By Dorothy Shelston
During this ebook the authors have tried to checklist and produce jointly a variety of the huge old and literary documentation at the adventure of existence in the towns through the interval in their growth within the early and center years of the 19th century.
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It were better that measures should be adopted to check, if that be possible, the spread of pauperism in Ireland, and to improve the condition of its inhabitants; but, if this cannot be done, it seems indispensable that we should endeavour to guard against being overrun by a pauper horde. J. R. 395. 5 millions in 1851. Writing before those terrible events Thomas Carlyle expressed similar concern about Irish immigration. The Irish had the reputation for being able to outwork and underlive the British and the worst descriptions of living conditions in the industrial towns relate to those districts where they lived.
The 14 counties where it has been the greatest 112 121 183 Proportion of Births and Deaths to Population in the Year ended June 30, 1840 deaths 54), births 34), deaths 48), births 33). deaths 39), births 29), (1 in (1 in (1 in (1 in (1 in (1 in Proportion of Births and Deaths to every 10,000 Persons in same period Excess in every 10,000 Persons of Births above Deaths deaths 184 births 297 113 deaths 208 births 302 94 deaths 259 births 348 89 Edwin Chadwick, Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842), ed.
Cit. Dennis, op. 55). 'Near', that is, but not 'in'. North and South, if usually regarded as a Manchester novel, is in fact more fictional in its invention of locations than the earlier Mary Barton where, in confirmation of Engels, master and men live in different parts of the city, and where Mrs Gaskell makes a specific point of emphasising the distance, physical and symbolic, between them. ' The irony is that while the city and its streets provided a context for the interaction of different social classes the divisions it was beginning to embody meant that they knew little of each other's lives.