The days hundred years before were very different from now. We might think they were nicer with less stress. What is more, they were definitely miserable.
The problems of a hundred years ago included pollution, traffic congestion, poor diet and illness.
Today hundreds of thousands of cars emit gases which we all believe cause pollution and plenty of accidents. Was it much better hundred years before? The reply is no. It looks amazing that only 100 years ago the automobile industry was still in it’s infancy, and the vast majority of transport was performed using horse drawn vehicles. Runaway horses were common that killed countless numbers of people. The horse-associated fatality rate was ten times today’s car-associated rate. Over three million horses were used in American cities and every single horse produced more than twenty-five pounds of manure each day. Besides horses motorcars started to appear but the number back then was less than 20,000 motorcars around the world, plenty of them being electric cars. Today, there are more cars manufactured than their is demand for it. There are around 1 billion cars and trucks on the road, half of them in the United States.
Food was horrible. For instance, to improve the color of milk from diseased cattle, added plaster of Paris was applied. Bakers preserved their dough with alum and sulphur of copper. Customers were continually enraged to explore pieces of foreign matter in their bread such as oven ash and grit. In the early 19th century most of the working class lived on a dreary diet of bread, butter, potatoes and bacon. Butcher’s meat was a luxury. However things significantly enhanced at the end of nineteenth century.
Due to these horrid circumstances it is not surprising that illness was frequent. Five leading causes of death were pneumonia, diarrhea and heart disease, influenza and tuberculosis. It is truly remarkable to see that the official cause of death has altered significantly over the last 100 years} owing to the discovery of what truly kills people. Cancer is a leading example of this.
Building contractors had a freehand to build as they wanted. Profit became the main motivator for builders. They understood that those arriving in the cities needed a job and someplace to live. As a result, a house was put up rapidly and cheaply. None of these homes had no bathroom, toilet or running water. Cooking was a monumental task what is more laundry was physically punishment.
The next time anyone wants to complaining about how tough things are now, stop and recall what everthing was like just 100 short years before. We have such a lot of things to be greatful for and very few of us have any purpose to feel like we are living in the ancient times just since we do not own the latest cellular phone or LCD TV.
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