Child labour was another cause of deat. It was cheap. The average adult wage in the 1850s was about 75p a week, but for children, it was just 25p a week, and children were able to start work at 4 or 5 years old and do specific jobs because of their small size. They were chimney sweeps, factory, farm and mine workers, clothes or match-makers. Other children were servants in rich people's home, doing jobs such as washing, cooking or cleaning. There was also work on the streets, as flower-sellers, fruit-sellers, matchstick-sellers, road-sweepers or rubbish collectors. The work was hard and tiring and the conditions dangerous and dirty. Initially, there weren't many laws to protect children, so by 1821, about half the workforce was under 20. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was created in 1824, but the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children wasn't around until 1891! Things were gradually better. Under the 1833 Factory Act, children under 9 weren't allowed in factories and there was two hours of education a day for children under 13. By 1891, schools were free and compulsory for all children from 5 to 12 and child labour was no longer the norm.