Whitechapel: c1870-1900
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- Overcrowdng
- 30,000 people in 4,000 houses
- 30 people in 1 apartment
- Shared beds
- Starvation
- Family of 10 in one room
- Vulnerable
- STEALING
- Lodging/Doss houses could be rented for a night
- FLOWER AND DEAN STREET
- Poorest area of Whitechapel
- Conditions
- Narrow yards
- Dilapidated houses
- Cramped rooms
- Poor sewage
- Terrible reputation
- PROSTITUTION
- THIEVES
- VIOLENT CRIMES
- Probably where Ripper lived
- Where 2 victims lived
- PEABODY ESTATE
- Model housing
- An attempt to get rid of ROOKERIES-slum housing
- Artisan's Dwellings Act 1875
- Encouraged slum clearence
- 1881
- George Peabody funded slum clearance and creation of 286 flats
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