Tag: the industrial age and change of life of people

The 1891 Factory and Workshop Act raised the minimum age for the employment of children in factories to 11 years old.

Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report on the sanitary condition of the laboring population highlighted that the average life expectancy for laborers in rural Wiltshire was 33 years.

The 1850 Mines Act strengthened the 1842 act by giving mine inspectors the legal power to enter and inspect mines underground.

For the poorer farmers, machines brought misery. Many of them bought these machines, imagining that wheat prices would remain high and profits would flow in. If they had no money, the banks offered loans. Those who borrowed found it difficult to pay back their debts. Many of them deserted their farms and looked for jobs elsewhere. 

The second major cholera epidemic in England occurred in 1848, following the initial 1831 outbreak.

The first recorded case of cholera in England during the 1831 epidemic occurred in the port city of Sunderland, where it arrived via shipping.

Between 1852 and 1923, the world would see four more cholera pandemics. The third pandemic, stretching 1852–1859, was the deadliest. It devastated Asia, Europe, North America and Africa, killing 23,000 people in Great Britain alone in 1854, the worst single year of cholera. Hence, Option A is correct. Among the rest timelines, in 1873-74, the fourth epidemic occurred in Hungary. And the fifth spanned 1892-93. Hence, these are incorrect. 

The 1878 Factory and Workshop Act consolidated previous legislation and further restricted the employment of children, specifically setting the minimum age at ten.

The four-field crop rotation system, popularized by Charles Townshend, became widely adopted in England around 1730 during the Agricultural Revolution.