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"In one of these courts there stands directly at the entrance, at the end of the covered passage, a privy without a door, so dirty that the inhabitants can pass into and out of the court only by passing through foul pools of stagnant urine and excrement. Below it on the river there are several tanneries which fill the whole neighbourhood with the stench of animal putrefaction. Below Ducie Bridge the only entrance to most of the houses is by means of narrow, dirty stairs and over heaps of refuse and filth. The first court below Ducie Bridge, known as Allen's Court, was in such a state at the time of the cholera that the sanitary police ordered it evacuated, swept, and disinfected with chloride of lime" - excerpt from Friedrick Engels, The Conditions of the Working Class in England (1845) Which statement best explains the historical context that the passage is describing?
A) working conditions inside factories during the early Industrial Revolution
B) unsanitary conditions brought on by rapid urbanization
C) rural village life due to less technology
D) immigrant enclaves created in England

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