Ragged London in 1861

Agar Town amount assistance average population Bermondsey Bethnal Green bread building called charity child Christ Church City Clerkenwell cloth costermongers cottages courts and alleys crowded death deceased December destitute dirt dirty distress district ditto doors dwellings East Edition EDWARD VANSITTART NEALE expenses families Fcap fund George's girl Harriet Martineau holes and corners houses huddle hundred inhabitants inspector January John John William Kaye labourers Lane living London look magistrate Marylebone metropolis Metropolitan misery model lodging-houses mother nearly neighbourhood officers overcrowding Pancras parish pauperism persons police police-courts poor rate poor-box poor-law Portpool Lane Post 8vo present price 21s ragged received relief rents Road rooms schools shillings a week Shoreditch side society Soho Somers Town soup-kitchen Southwark Spitalfields stand Street tenants thieves thoroughfare thousand tion visited vols Westminster Whitechapel woman women workhouse wretched yard