whitechapel sheets Flashcards
what did whitechapel suffer from
pollution
what was smog
smoke + fog
what were greenish smogs called
pea soupers
what was the sewage like
sewage was thrown out of windows, and ran down a line in the middle of the street
were there many street lights
no
what class was London predominantly occupied by in 1870-90
working class
where was the majority of immigrants from
ireland, eastern and central europe: mainly russian polisha and german
what was the only escape for many men and women
alchohol, mainly gin
what profited from the people’s depression and poverty
many pubs and inns
how many rooms would a family have lived in
one
name for toilets
‘privies’
where were ‘privies’ located
at the end of the street
what was the drinking water like
many houses shared drinking water, which was often polluted
which main diseases spread
typhus tuberculosis and cholera
in 1877 how amny rooms and people did one rookery contain
123 rooms, 757 people
how would private housing be rented out by factory owners
rent deducted from wages, and part of wage given in food vouchers for the factoy shop
how many people could share one apartment
30 people
hwo long would sailors stay in whitechapel
several weeks
Victoia Holmes
39-41commercial street and 177 Whitechapel Road
rookery at Flower and Dean st
31 doss houses 902 lodgers
doss house bed relay systems
2 way- day night
3 way- trio allowed 8 hours of sleep per night
cheapest rate in a doss house
2 pence for a rope
who was whitechapel workhouse inhabited by
poor adults who had no job or home/ families
how many inmates is South Grove Workhoue Whitechapel
400
how many beds reserved for vagrants in the Casual Ward at St Thomas’s street
60 beds
what manual labour existed in the workhouse
breaking rocks, picking oakum
how many part time prostitutes
90,000
whitechpels most famous factory
Whitechapel Bell Foundry, where Big Ben was made
sweated trades meaning and examples
long work hours for little pay, tailoring, shoe making or match making
Bryant and May factory
match making factory, cramped conditions, Fossy Jaw from Phosphorus poisoning ,
‘navvies’
railway construction, or labourers in the London Dock
what did rich Victorians believe about the slums
that the slums were the outcome of laziness, sin, and vice of the lower classes.
