Armall Overcrowding

Overcrowding is where too many people are in the same area. This can cause diseases like colds to spread because of cross infection.

This essay will explore housing as a social determinant of health and the effects it has on the physical and mental health and wellbeing of families, communities and individuals. Poor housing and poverty may be a result of overcrowding, dampness, mould, insufficient heating and poor ventilation. It can have detrimental effects on the behaviour of individuals, how families cooperate and friendliness within communities. Poor housing can cause anything from colds and flus to cardiovascular disease but also may affect mental health. This may lead to individuals experiencing depression and anxiety. It is also common for children’s development to be disrupted due to poor housing and poverty. Different housing-related conditions results in different physical and mental health illnesses for different age groups, for example, overcrowding affecting the respiratory system is more common in childhood whereas insufficient heating having a negative affect and causing excess winter deaths is prone to those age 65 and over.

In the first few Most contracts never mentioned the safety and comfort of tenants (p. 10). In addition, many of the tenants were working and needed to be close to where they worked. The costs of living in these tenement houses were ridiculously high for the condition and size of the rooms.

During World War II, approximately 120,000 people of Japanese descent who lived on the Pacific Coast of the US were sent to internment camps after the bombing at Pearl Harbor by Japan on December 7th, 1941. American citizens made up 62% of those who were interned. And even though these

One of every three inhabitants of flats of 4 or less rooms, irrespective of class, were overcrowded. In 1866, the Sanitary Act defined overcrowding as less than 400 cubic feet for each adult living in a room day and night, or 300 cubic feet for a sleeping room. For children, these dimensions were halved. This means that a man, woman, and one child living in a room 8'x10'x10' would be considered overcrowded. For statistical and census purposes, the London City Council ignored cubic capacity, and counted anything beyond two people per room as overcrowded. Hector Gavin, a lecturer in forensic medicine at Charing Cross Hospital estimated that if all the windows and doors of a typical laborers tenement were shut(against the cold, for example), the maximum length a man could survive before all available oxygen was consumed was seven hours. The Window Tax of 1695, which taxed any opening in a building's exterior walls, was finally repealed by the first Public Health Act of 1848.

Foster children or any other household members may not use any of the following as a bedroom:

1. Mass displacement due to war or natural calamity: This is a major reason for increasing homelessness around the globe especially in developing countries with less developed infrastructure and parallel support system. When such displacement occur the basic objective of people is to save their lives by hook or by crook. But sooner or later they need to fulfil their basic need of shelter, which might not be provided properly due to lack of resources in the country where

Due to this loss, houses became very overcrowded to the point where families had to live in a single room. This would be where they would cook, eat, sleep and socialise. Rooms to rent became very popular.

ECONOMIC-Low income families may not always be able to provide for their children as This may result in overcrowding, for example being housed in a bedsit or home with insufficient bedrooms. This means the child has no privacy, or personal space. They may struggle with homework and course work because of the lack of a quiet space in which to complete it. The housing provided may be of a poor quality – suffering damp or be in disrepair. This could have a detrimental effect on the child’s health – causing asthma or frequent colds and coughs. It will probably be in a less desirable area or could be in an area with social disorder problems. This may result in the children becoming isolated, as their parents may be fearful of letting them out to play or they may themselves become involved in anti-social behaviour and criminal activities

b. Leisure Activities in Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte i. Standing and Sitting ii. Walking iii. Conversing with each other iv. Having a picnic v. Rowing a boat vi. Shading oneself from the sun D. Social Life of Urban Dwellers a. With the Industrial Revolution thousands of people had migrated to the inner city creating overcrowding in

there would be an average of half a dozen boarders to each room. sometimes there were thirteen or fourteen to one room, fifty or sixty to a flat. : rooms were crowded with people

Housing was deemed a necessity as people were living in poor conditions, families were overcrowded and there was families living in tenements that shared toilet amenities. Also there were homeless people living in the streets.

An overcrowded area puts enormous pressure on the state for the provision of houses and other services. People in the urban areas end up being jobless because there is a lot of demand for jobs that is caused by this overpopulation. Even the rural areas suffer because there will be depopulation, people will move out leaving the place to the elders only. The rural areas will not be productive in anyway because people who are economically active have left, this means we may end up not having people who can bring changes in the rural areas or those who serve as role model to the upcoming generation.

Due to changes in the agricultural community there was in early nineteenth century East Anglia a significant situation of underemployment within the agricultural labourers’ community. At this time it was also being recognised that there was an ever increasing growth in population; for instance: ‘several landowners and journalists attributed the problems of rural society to the size of the labourers’ families and to their tendency to marry at an early age.’ It has been suggested that the average size of the agricultural labourers’ household was 4.9. This population rise in turn put pressure on the supply of housing, resulting in many agricultural labouring families living in small, squalid and overcrowded cottages, many consisting of just one room, with no ceiling, just the bare roof tiles and a clay floor. The building itself would have been constructed from unbound stone or wattle and mud. It can be suggested that:

Overpopulation in India Did you know that India is the second most populated country in the world? India’s population rate went up to 1.2 billion in past few years, which has a negative impact on the quality of life, lived in India.