Who mostly lived in tenement houses during the nineteenth and twentieth century?
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It was the poor people and immigrants, who mainly lived in tenement houses during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Tenement houses are poorly maintained, overcrowded apartments, in large buildings, usually in the poor sections of a large city. Crime was rampant and the squalid living conditions at tenement houses often led to outbreak of diseases. A cholera outbreak in 1849, in Lower East Side of New York, resulted in about 5000 deaths.
Throughout generations and ages the society is divided by the class system.
The classes were divided as per the economic condition of the people.
There were the rich and the aristocrats, the upper class, the middle class or the lower class.
The middle-class society lived in the tenement houses in the major part of the 19th and 20th century.