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And while the middle and upper classes struggled with inconvenience… The poor faced something far harsher— A daily battle simply to survive their surroundings. Victorian London’s poorest districts were packed beyond imagination. Narrow alleyways twisted between overcrowded buildings. Tiny rooms held entire families. Basements flooded regularly. Walls dripped with damp. And sunlight barely reached the streets below. In these neighborhoods… Garbage piled in corners for days. Sometimes w