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Political Corruption In The 19th Century

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Political corruption combined with enormous numbers of emigrants added to the filth problem of the city because the political was taking advertences of the emigrant’s making them share one small apartment which would also be their living and work space so a lot of the times there were two families in one small apartment and one of their rooms would become a sweatshop were they would make clothes and things in so it was making it hard to live in with some many people and the political only cared about money instead of the families like it should of be about .also having the emigrants coming over all the time was adding to the filth because they were being they pets over and letting them stay in the apartment and also they were being things like

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