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19th century Britain saw a huge population increase accompanied by rapid urbanization stimulated by the Industrial Revolution.
The large numbers of skilled and unskilled people looking for work kept wages down to a barely subsistence level.
Large houses were turned into flats and tenements, and as landlords failed to maintain these dwellings slum housing developed.
Kellow Chesney described the situation as follows: " Hideous slums, some of them acres wide, some no more than crannies of obscure misery, make up a substantial part of the metropolis ...
" Significant changes happened in the British Poor Law system in England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.
These included significant expansions in workhouses ( or poorhouses in Scotland ), although with changing populations during the era.
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