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At the time of the Industrial Revolution, London was significantly divided. In the Westend, the wealthy classes lived, with good, well paying and respectable occupations which resulted in them having enough money to be able to afford a nice home and other luxuries. On the other hand, the East end was home to the working class and below. The working classes had jobs which were usually harmful and for the majority of the time, did not pay enough for a sanitary abode and the necessary nutritious amount of food.  Victorian Westend One of the reasons why London was known as 'Two Cities', although geographically, they were just one, was because of the clothing. The people in the Westend could afford multiple bright and unique outfits because it was (and still is) considered to be an awful thing to be wearing the same garments as your peers. However, the people in the East end could only afford one outfit, poor of quality- normally second hand- and in quite dark, dull and c...

Throughout Queen Victoria's reign, the country suffered from several epidemics of cholera, the first occurring in Sunderland in 1831. It attacked because a ship had recently docked which carried sailors who were carrying the contagious disease from Hamburg. London experienced their first case in 1832 but it only claimed 800 East end lives and in that year, a child born at Bethnal Green was expected to live up to sixteen years at the most! Also in this year, tuberculosis was a bigger killer than cholera. Cholera is a horrible virus which is passed through water and food contaminated with the disease. It causes dehydration, vomiting and severe diarrhoea. The faeces come out ridiculously quick and cause extreme loss of bodily fluids. Because of the lack of medicine and no NHS (For those who dwell in England), there was a near 100% chance of death for one of it's victims! In Lewis Square, Nottingham in 1856, a census recorded that 616 people were killed by cholera.  To ad...