LIFE AND DEATH IN DUNDEE

DUNDEE

Dundee is famous for Jute, Jam (Marmalade) and Journalism (Courier, Sunday Post, Beano)

Jute is a fiber made from a 12-foot-high grass that grows mostly in India and Bangladesh. 

In Scotland, a city’s world-class industrial past informs its present - By David Brown

"63 percent of Dundee’s eligible men fought in World War I, where they were slaughtered in droves. A battalion known as “Dundee’s Own” sent 423 men and 20 officers into battle at Loos, France, in September 1915. 

"All but one of the officers were killed, as were 230 enlisted men." 

In Scotland, a city’s world-class industrial past informs its present - By David Brown

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Most of the people working in the jute factories were poorly paid women and children.

In 1886, research, by J S Haldane and others, showed that in Dundee-

'The death rate of children was four times higher in one-room tenements than in four-room houses. 

'Residents living in one room “have the chance at birth of living only one-half as long as those in better-class houses, or they die nearly 20 years sooner, on the average, than those of the better class.” 

'Teenage boy mill workers were 4½ inches shorter and “a stone lighter” — that’s 14 pounds — than rural teenagers in Scotland.'

In Scotland, a city’s world-class industrial past informs its present - By David Brown