Source 1: A Manchester Slum The area is full of ruined or half-ruined buildings. Some of them are actually deserted. In the houses, one rarely sees a wooden or stone floor. The windows are nearly always broken and badly fitted. And the dirt! Everywhere one sees piles of garbage and filth. There are foul pools instead of gutters. The stink is so strong that no one even partially civilized could bear to live there. I walked to the river along a very rough path which passed between laundry lines. At the river bank, I reached a messy group of one-storied, one-room shacks. Most of them have dirt floors. Working, living, eating, and sleeping all take place in the one very small room. In this hole, I saw two beds - and what beds and bedding! They filled the entire room, except for the fireplace and doorstep. (Several of these huts were completely empty of furniture, although I saw people living in them.) In front of the doors, there was filth and garbage everywhere. I could not see the pavement, but from time to time I felt it was there because my feet scraped it. This whole collection of cattle sheds for human beings was surrounded on two sides by houses and a factory, and on the third side by the river. Adapted from The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels, 1845. Nicholas B. Fessenden. Impact of the Industrial Revolution. New York: Harcourt Brach Jovanovich, 1978. O 1) How does the characteristics of this area show you the state of the slum and the people in it?

Source 1: A Manchester Slum The area is full of ruined or half-ruined buildings. Some of them are actually deserted. In the houses, one rarely sees a wooden or stone floor. The windows are nearly always broken and badly fitted. And the dirt! Everywhere one sees piles of garbage and filth. There are foul pools instead of gutters. The stink is so strong that no one even partially civilized could bear to live there. I walked to the river along a very rough path which passed between laundry lines. At the river bank, I reached a messy group of one-storied, one-room shacks. Most of them have dirt floors. Working, living, eating, and sleeping all take place in the one very small room. In this hole, I saw two beds - and what beds and bedding! They filled the entire room, except for the fireplace and doorstep. (Several of these huts were completely empty of furniture, although I saw people living in them.) In front of the doors, there was filth and garbage everywhere. I could not see the pavement, but from time to time I felt it was there because my feet scraped it. This whole collection of cattle sheds for human beings was surrounded on two sides by houses and a factory, and on the third side by the river. Adapted from The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels, 1845. Nicholas B. Fessenden. Impact of the Industrial Revolution. New York: Harcourt Brach Jovanovich, 1978. O 1) How does the characteristics of this area show you the state of the slum and the people in it?