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.

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

The Walls family, like many in America, is dysfunctional. The father is an alcoholic and the mother simply does not want to grow up. The Walls children have proven to be survivors and that they can take care of themselves, but that doesn’t mean that they should take care of themselves. One might ask, how can nurses help children such as the Walls? How can society help the parents? The answer is not simple or easy.

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

This is portraying horrendous living conditions because families of six or more had to live in a dirty, small apartment. Not all families could afford the luxurious houses outside of the town, so many children and their parents were stuck sharing the same bed. Another thing we can infer from the photograph is that the houses and city were dirty, and most likely tar filled (Document 6). CM (x2): From the photograph, you can that the children’s clothes are torn, dirty, and weary. This exhibits that not only do they have to live in the cramped tenements, they could not afford pricey habiliments.

Perhaps the easiest and most straightforward aspect to asses regarding the effects of the different types of care is the physical development of infants and children. These are objective findings which can easily and definitely be measured. Children raised in a home care setting are obviously less likely to catch illness such as colds and flu, chicken pox and other communicable diseases. They do not share toy toys and objects with those children who may be infected with an illness and they are not in close contact and quarters with those who are infected. Parents who have more education and have more social concerns are also likely to be diligent about the cleanliness of the environment and are more concerned with hand washing and cleanliness. These parents and caregivers exhibit more responsibility with leaving their children home when an illness is suspected, so as to not infect other people and children.

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.

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

Another issue that the internees dealt was the small space in which they were now required to live, which consisted of small bunks which were occupied by entire families, or multiple families depending on their size. And when some families would share a bunk, the room dividers between each family sometimes didn’t even reach the ceiling.

That means upwards of sixty people could be sharing a single bathroom. This is disgusting and extremely unhygienic. With cramped spaces comes bug infestations and illnesses. To say the least, these “homes” were breaking every health code violation that exists today. I strongly disagree with how these people were treated and expected to live.

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.

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.

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.

We discussed information about the rising population. No-one seemed to mind the size reduction as it was reasonable. The population was continuing to rise and most of us had adjusted to the small living space. We had never known what it was like to live in a less-populated city and in rooms (that were typically seven metres squared according to old

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.