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What is the main idea of the passage?

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, crime, and wretchedness be prevented.


–Dr. John Griscom, 1842


Crime is the result of poor living and working conditions.


Providing people with clean, safe housing will help improve society.


People will be more inclined to move to the city if it was clean.


Providing people with better factory conditions will improve society.\

Answer is B!!!!

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Answer:

The anser is B. Providing people with clean , safe housing will help improve society

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer:

Option(B)

Providing people with clean, safe housing will help improve society.

Step-by-step explanation:

The passage clearly states that if we provide the laboring classes which are the lower classes living in poverty with better facilities like improved ventilation and other home facilities like clean and safe housing they will suffer less and will not be lured to committing a crime at younger age in order to fulfill their needs which is called premature mortality.

Hence crime rate will decrease and society will be better.

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