| Bake
House |
A
house or place used for the baking of bread, pastries etc |
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| Carpenters
Tools |
Tools
used a carpenter (a worker in wood) |
|
| Carribbee
Island |
Carribbee
Island was an area of Wolverhampton bounded by Stafford Street, Back
Lane, Carbury Street and Canal Street (Broad Street) It was an area
known in the 19th Century for its slum housing and overcrowding. It
was also an area where a large number of Irish immigrants lived |
|
| Cesspool/pit |
A
pool or pit for the collection of filthy water |
|
| Cholera |
A
highly infectious and deadly disease spread by dirty water (often
the excrememnt of the previous victim). Extreme bouts of diarrhoea
leads to dehydration and shock follwed by death within 24 - 48 hours. |
|
| Collier |
A
person who works in a coal mine |
|
| Convenience |
A
building or room set apart with a container for body waste products |
|
| Diarrhoea |
A
persistent purging of the bowels |
|
| Diphtheria |
An
infectious throat disease in which the air passages become covered
with a leathery membrane |
|
| Dung
Heap |
A
heap of manure |
|
| Enamelware |
A
form of decoration that involves a variety of glass applied as a coating
to a metal or other surface and fired |
|
| Endemic |
A
disease regularly found in a people or district |
|
| Epidemic |
A
disease affecting a community at a certain time |
|
| Fetid |
Strong
offensive smell |
|
| Fever |
Infectious
disease marked by great bodily heat and a quickening pulse |
|
| Files |
A
steel tool with sharp edged furrows for smoothing or rasping metals |
|
| Flagging
Rate |
A
rate levied for the flagging or paving of a district |
|
| Measles |
A
highly contagious virus characterised by red spots and spread by coughing,
sneezing or even talking. Can be fatal.
|
|
| Midden |
A
dunghill or refuse heap |
|
| Night
Soil |
Human
body waste |
|
| Night
Soil Men |
Men
paid to remove body waste usually at night in urban areas |
|
| Papier-Mâché |
A
material consisting of paper-pulp or sheet of paper pasted together,
treated so as to resemble varnished or lacquered wood or plaster |
|
| Pig
Sty |
A
pen for keeping pigs |
|
| Poor
Law Union |
Poor
Law Unions were set up under the Poor Law Amendments Act 1834 to administer
relief to the poor. They were also responsible for public health |
|
| Privy |
A
building or room set apart with a container for body waste products |
|
| Refuse |
Rubbish |
|
| Scarlet
Fever |
An
infectious fever of children marked by a sore throat and a scarlet
rash |
|
| Scarlatina
|
Scarlet
Fever |
|
| Sanitation |
Sanitary
condition, methods and apparatus for making and maintaining area safe
to live in |
|
| Sewage |
Refuse
carried off by sewers |
|
| Sewer |
A
channel for receiving the drainage of house drains and streets |
|
| Sewerage
|
System
or provision of sewers |
|
| Slaughter
House |
A
place where beasts are killed for market |
|
| Smallpox |
A
contagious disease characterised by small pocks or eruptions on the
skin |
|
| Smiths'
Tools |
Tools
used by a smith (a worker in metals) |
|
| Stagnant |
Impure
water due to the lack of inflow and outflow |
|
| Tinware |
Articles
made of tin |
|
| Traps
|
An
instrument for snaring animals |
|
| Typhoid
Fever |
An
enteric or intestinal fever caused by a bacillus carried in tainted
food or drinking water |
|
| Turnpike
Roads |
Roads
where a fee is charged for its use |
|
| Typhus |
An
extremely contagious and often fatal fever transmitted by lice and
rat fleas associated with filth and overcrowding |
|
| Vermin
Traps |
Traps
for catching rats mice etc |
|
| Vis |
Read |
|
| Vitiated
|
Tainted |
|
| Water
Closet |
A
closet used as a lavatory in which discharges are removed by water |
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