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POVERTY IN EAST END The origin of poverty in East End dates back to the mid eighteenth century, when the population of London began to grow at an unprecedented rate. It caused a high demand for cheap housing. London slums arose initially as a result of rapid population growth and industrialization. They became notorious for overcrowding, unsanitary and squalid living conditions. Most well-off Victorians were ignorant or pretended to be ignorant of the subhuman slum life, and many, who heard about it, believed that the slums were the outcome of laziness, sin and vice of the lower classes. However, a number of socially conscious writers, social investigators, moral reformers, preachers and journalists, who sought solution to this urban malady in the second half of the nineteenth century, argued convincingly that the growth of slums was caused by poverty, unemployment, social exclusion and homelessness.

caused: a provoqué / a déclenché slums: bidonvilles squalid: sordide well-off: riche / aisé subhuman: inhumain Word box outcome: résultat preacheors: prêcheurs sought: prétérit de seek = chercher argued: ont affirmé homelessness: le fait d'être sans-abri

1. The origin of poverty in East End dates back to: the 1650s ☐ the 1750s

2. Justify your answer wer by quoting from the text. policy of encouraging birth-rate growing desire to have children the 1850s

3. What happened to the population of London? Dit became smaller it didn't change it became bigger

4. According to the article, what may have caused this phenomenon and the development of slums? heavy immigration industrialization

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