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Whitechapel units, 1.6.1.1 - 1.6.1.2 - 1.6.1.3 (1.6.1.1 - Housing and…
Whitechapel units, 1.6.1.1 - 1.6.1.2 - 1.6.1.3
1.6.1.1 - Housing and living
Whitechapel
Located in the eastend of London
Became famous for mainly bad reasons
Crime
Imigration
work/labour
Gangs
Vigilantes were common
high poverty
High rates of poverty
Not enough jobs for everyone
Many temporary jobs
Turn up for job not guaranteed
Accomodation and Housing
Overcrowded in 1880's
7 people on average in a home
A lot of temporary housing - "Lodging houses"
Majority of housing in the slums - "Rookeries"
Average living space = 2.3 square meters
1000 people in whitechapel were homeless
Could go to workhouse if desperate but people were treated like prisoners in them
Doss houses on Dean street - "Dosseries"
Sanitation and cleanliness
Houses often disgusting
Spillages of waste common
Pollution terrible
Westerly wind took pollution towards other areas
Slums in whitechapel full of dirt and disease
1.6.1.2
Groups migrating/migrated to Whitechapel
Irish immigration
Happened mainly in the 1840's and 1850's
This was due to the potato famine in 1947, This created starvation and caused people to move to Whitechapel
competition
A lot of English workers did not like the irish migrating to Whitechapel
They did not like them because they would compete for jobs but for a much lower cost than English workers
The irish immigrants caused it to be harder to get a house for the English even though it was already hard to get one
English = Protestant
Irish = Catholic
Jewish immigration
1.6.1.3