Instruction
Active
Finding the Main Idea
By providing the laboring classes with better tenements.
improved ventilation, and healthy and cleanly
arrangements in respect to yards, sinks and sewerage,
they will certainly suffer less from sickness and
premature mortality, and a vast amount of pauperism,
erime, and wretchedness be prevented.
-Dr. John Griseom, 1842
What is the main idea of the passage?
Crime is the result of poor living and working
conditions
O Providing people with clean, safe housing will help
improve society
O People will be more inclined to move to the city if it
was clean
O Providing people with better factory conditions will
improve society