Best wishes, Pete. The rich however would be well fed every morning and would have extra luxuries accessible. The wealthy Victorian family would have meat daily and cheese and bacon for supper. the Old Kent Road shopping for 'tainted' pieces of meat and 'those odds and Learn how your comment data is processed. Best wishes, Pete. Stocking weavers, shoe makers, Thanks, Nicholas. The accessibility of good and healthy food directly depended upon the income of a person and during 1830-1840 the income of people had drastically reduced owing to the depression. A peasant-style diet abundant in simple fare such as potatoes, vegetables, milk and fish kept the rural poor of mid-Victorian Britain much healthier than their urban counterparts, a study has shown. of the century social workers entering the homes of the poor to teach wives "However, the peasant diet is higher in saturated fats from milk and butter than the traditional Mediterranean diet, which acquires its fats from olive oils, oily fish and nuts and seeds. Yet despite the monotony of this diet, Greaves points out that the physicians of the time described a particularly robust and healthy-looking population. This was often due to poor diet and malnutrition although the biggest killer remained dirty drinking water. The Dietary Divide Between the Rich and Poor in the Victorian Era During the 19th cent ury, more than 25% of society operated at or below the proper nourishment level, 15-20% earned barely enough to survive, and 10% were unable to sustain themselves with the essential requirement of healthy, wholesome food. Even now in our country, the disparity between wealth and poverty is so glaring. This would continue to decrease until the lowest rung of the ladder where the poorest would have potatoes as the sole food. It’s easy to forget that it took a lot of effort and progressive policies to reduce the level of poverty to today’s standards. I sometimes wonder if some inner cities will return to conditions similar to the ones shown here, John. I can imagine how close both of those classes actually lived to each other at the time. The homes of the poor : A poor Victorian family would have lived in a very small house with only a couple of rooms on each floor. Children chopping wood to sell as kindling. No social services, few charitable organisations, and families living their lives on the streets, trying to get by on a daily basis. The definition of destitute does not compare across the eras. In London, overcrowded slum living often preceded real poverty. Things are going well, new kitchen, sorted out most of the ‘snags’, found some new hobbies etc. He was a contemporary of the time, after all. With the advancements of the industrial revolution however and the invention of the railways and steam ships food began to be sent across the country and imported from overseas. Change ). It was noted that by the time the nineteenth century came to an end, the population grew to about three times than the population which was noticed at the beginning of the nineteenth century in Great Britain. 7: Poor children had few food luxuries and ate poor food (see above). . Certainly not the greatest diet! Did you ever wonder what it was like to eat with people like Rockefeller, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, or Boss Tweed? A young girl making a poor quality soup. This was widely ignored though, and rarely prosecuted. But in the Victorian Era, when our Empire was flourishing and many people were becoming obscenely wealthy, genuine poverty existed alongside all the grandeur. I wish young people today had to see these photos. Best wishes, Pete. Food was therefore bought locally and consumed within a small time frame. Another great post, Pete. Things did not begin to improve until Jacob Riis, a Dane, published his photo book – “How the Other Half Lives.” It was a sensation and moved a young Theodore Roosevelt to begin progressive era improvements. The boy’s axe might well have been borrowed, as he was unlikely to be able to afford to buy one.
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