"Poverty was mainly a result of overpopulation which caused the want in jobs to increase therefore employement increased . However this meant whom ever was employed their wages where cut due to the number of workers. So basically no matter what unemployeed or not poverty was a problem beacuse back then they did not have money to fall back on like we do know. "

Wealthy people's living conditions:   The wealthy people of the Victorian era lived in very large and spacious houses, some as big as three stories.  They lived luxoriously, often having large, several-coursed meals and some had servants.  The average wealthy man lived to be 45 years old and the average servant or laborer lived to be 22.

Poor Living Conditions:  The poor social groups of the Victorian era lived in very tight and compacted housing.  It was very small and sometimes the entire family would be shoved into these harsh conditions because many had no place to go.  At times there were many "poor houses" which were supported by taxes to hold up to, two families at a time so they could attempt to clean the poverty ridden streets. But these houses were often very crowded and left many sick and even more open to disease.

Treatment of the ill-The ill people were "cured" rather strangely, often by bleeding, plactering, purging, sweating, and amputation. Sometimes the curing did not work.  

Poverty was cause by an over population and a want in jobs. the need for jobs increased due to the high population but most demands were not met and therefore the wages that were paid very very little due to the vast amount of workers in that region 

Sanitary Conditions-The sanitary conditions of this time were absolutly horrible. The streets were ridden with animal feces from butchers, garbage, and a lot of sewer leakage. Some of these toxic fumes were emitted into bathrooms, sinks, and completely contaminated the water supply.  Most of the water was virtually undrinkable due to the fact that everyday people would dump fecal matter,trash, and dead animals straight into the Thames river and eventually flowed upstream to most of the water supplies in England. The fact that neighboring towns were doing the same didnt help at all. Many infectious dieaseases plagued this area as well. Some as deadly as Influenza,Typhus, and Chlorea. These diseases were often very fatal or left the victims immune system completely destroyed and open to many more diseases. It was said that for every one person who died from old age or violence, eight people died of diesease adn poor sanitary conditions. The conditions of these times effectively ruined the healthy society that was once England. Various diseases were spread easily because of lack of proper sanitation. Many families lived in a one room home and slept in a single bed. More people died from filth and poor ventilation than from any wars of that time.

The solution to these problems came from idealist Edwin Chadwick who convinced the government that the sanitary conditions needed to be fixed or more people would die. So he created a system in 1842 that washed the waste into the countryside.

More solutions popped up after this, including sewage pipes and hydraulic pressure systems being installed.

The devastation of these conditions left more than one third of three million people had died of these conditions and disturbing poverty. 

"During this period the extreme poverty of the lower working classes was pointed up by the increasingly congested living conditions of city life. While the nobility still hung onto its money and its social barriers, and an individual’s birthright tended to be the deciding factor of his future, the rapidly expanding middle classes made steady inroads. The middle-class novelist, Charles Dickens, did more than any writer before or since to expose the sufferings of the working class. His books found their way into the drawing rooms of the titled and wealthy, and social consciousness began to rise. Emancipation of women and the rights of children became popular cases for the previously sheltered nobility. They brought their money and influence to bear in demanding better working conditions and broader education for the working class. A kind of feverish sentimentality of guilt gripped everyone. People wept profusely over the sufferings of David Copperfield and Oliver Twist and then started to see if something could be done about the causes of such degradation and suffering. It is questionable that these people always recognized themselves in the sharp satire of writers such as Dickens or Thackeray, but they certainly recognized their friends. The debt owed to Charles Dickens for the many reforms of the Victorian Age is certainly not a small one.-"http://www.guidanceassociates.com/victorianage.html" 

CHILD LABOR: Mills and factories hired children because they were small and they could get between and behind machinery while the machines were still running. This was very dangerous and often the children were hurt and even killed.  They were also employed because they didn't have to get paid as much as adults did. Children also worked in coal mines, were chimneysweeps, and worked on farms or outside in freezing weather. They often worked for 12 hours a day, and didn't go to school.

"http://www.learnanywhere.co.uk/la/history/11.ppt#282,1,Slide 1"