Read the following excerpt from The Conditions of the Working Class in
England by Friedrich Engels. Which of the following best summarizes a major
point from this excerpt?
Manchester lies at the foot of the southern slope of a
range of hills.... The town itself is peculiarly built, so that
a person may live in it for years, and go in and out daily
without coming into contact with a working-people's
quarter... sharply separated from the sections of the city
reserved for the middle-class; ... Below it on the river there
are several tanneries which fill the whole neighbourhood
with the stench of animal putrefaction... The first court
below Ducie Bridge... was in such a state at the time of
the cholera that the sanitary police ordered it evacuated,
swept, and disinfected with chloride of lime.
The newly-built extension of the Leeds railway, which
crosses the Irk here, has swept away some of these courts
A