Whitechapel
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- Created on: 01-06-18 16:44
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- Whitechapel
- conditions
- pollution
- smog
- result of industry
- soot from coal for fires
- fumes
- houses near roads and railways
- disease
- open sewage
- overcrowding
- overcrowding
- pop density of 189 people per acre
- 4 times the pop density of the whole of London
- pop density of 189 people per acre
- pollution
- housing
- rookeries
- cheapest
- unsanitary
- poor sewerage
- overcrowded
- narrow yards
- dilapidation
- unsanitary
- lodging houses
- temporary stay
- 4d per night
- 1871: 902 lodgers in 31 doss houses
- bad reputation
- prostitution
- violence
- Ripper supposedly lived on Flower or Dean Street
- crime
- Ripper supposedly lived on Flower or Dean Street
- crime
- thieves
- alcoholics
- cheapest
- overcrowded
- 7.5 people per house
- Peabody Estate
- began
- by George Peabody
- in 1862
- first block of housing built 2 years later
- 1 toilet per 2 flats
- 57 dwellings
- 9 shops
- first block of housing built 2 years later
- with the aim to improve living conditions for the poor
- actions
- began
- rookeries
- observers
- Gustave Dore
- French artist
- biased
- outsider
- wanted conditions to seem bad
- made exaggerations
- biased
- French artist
- Gustave Dore
- Employment
- unemployed
- workhouses
- unpopular
- strict rules
- on diet
- on sleeping hours
- on working hours
- on type of work
- cleaning
- oakum picking
- cooking
- segregation of families
- parents could only see children once per day
- strict rules
- for orphans
- Dr Thomas Barnardo set up orphanages
- first in 1870
- by 1905 there were 100 Barnardo homes
- which saved 8500 orphans from workhouses
- Dr Thomas Barnardo set up orphanages
- unpopular
- death
- workhouses
- factories
- most famous is the Bell Foundry
- sweat shops
- trades
- tailoring
- shoemaking
- matchmaking
- conditions
- small
- dusty
- no natural light
- long hours
- low wages
- trades
- unemployed
- politics
- Socialists
- want to look after the poor
- did a Trafalgar Square demonstration 1887
- led to bloody Sunday
- did a Trafalgar Square demonstration 1887
- want to look after the poor
- Anarchists
- oppose organised government
- when revolution failed, leaders fled to Britain
- East End viewed as a refuge for terrorists
- 1893 Special Branch set up to monitor their activity
- Eastern European accent -> terrorist
- when revolution failed, leaders fled to Britain
- oppose organised government
- Socialists
- immigrants
- Irish
- pop grew in 1840s
- unliked
- violent when drunk
- unliked
- Fenians
- carried out terrorist attacks for freedom
- unliked
- violent when drunk
- 1885 Dynamite Saturday -attacked London Bridge, House of commons, Tower of London
- 1867 bombed Clerkenwell prison
- unliked
- carried out terrorist attacks for freedom
- pop grew in 1840s
- Jews
- escaping prosecution
- unliked
- due to business success
- due to foreign customs
- unliked
- escaping prosecution
- Irish
- conditions
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