What Was Whitechapel Like Flashcards
1
Q
What does Rookeries mean?
A
Poor areas filled with over crowded lodging houses/apartments
2
Q
What are doss houses
A
A cheap lodging house for homeless people - it cost 4d a night
4d = 4 pennies
3
Q
What is a slum
A
A squalid and overcrowded urban streets or district inhabited by very poor people
4
Q
flower and dean street was a….
A
Dirty, poor area that was overcrowded. The strrets were narrow in some areas, only 16 feet at its widest. It had poor sanitation and had a reputation for thieves, drunkyards and prostitues
