... the working class as having "poor paving". He goes on to say how "dung heaps, pools of slop water and filth could be seen all over as well as many open privies". This clearly indicates the level of filth in the working class. Clean water was also very rare among the working class this meant that many people suffered from the deadly epidemic called cholera. The living condition of Bradford was also very over crowded. At the top of this source it say's there were 7,240 houses with a population of 132,164 people. This means that there were approximately 18-19 people living in a house (which were very small) this consequently led to disease spreading rapidly among the population. James Deanston also describes the main sewage of the town to be poor. Water carriers who brought the water on carts and donkeys supplied much of the water in Bradford. The ...

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