Transcript Poor Housing = Poor Health

Poor Housing = Poor Health
Lesson starter:
In what ways does your home keep you
healthy? Write down your ideas.
Today we will…
• Identify the issues which create a link
between poor housing and poor health
• A lack of food was only
one cause of poor
health around 1900
• Poor housing was a
major factor
• Doctors and scientists
did not know as much
about germs and
bacteria as we do now
• However, they were
aware that those living
in poor housing were
more likely to be ill
Picture Quiz
You will see a series of pictures of Scottish
tenements around 1900.
Write down the problems you see with the
tenements.
Take notes on how the problems you see might
damage health.
Copy the table into your jotter
Housing Problem
No running water
Overcrowding
Leaking roof/windows
Nowhere for children to play
Rubbish/waste piled up outside
Open sewers
Human waste thrown from windows
Shared outside toilets
How does it damage
health?
Extension Tasks
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Read page 6 of the Health
booklet and answer the
questions underneath
Make a list of all the
essential things you used in
your house yesterday (i.e.
shower, toilet, cooker etc )
Take a highlighter and
highlight the ones you think
people had in 1900.
Write a short paragraph on
how you think you would cope
in a 1900 Glasgow tenement.