Whitechapel

Question 1

what group was responsible for policing Whitechapel

Answer 1

H division of the metropolitan police

Question 2

what was the name for the department of detectives in the met police

Answer 2

CID - criminal investigation department

Question 3

what was London population at the time of Whitechapel study

Answer 3

5 million

Question 4

how many police in London

Answer 4

13 000

Question 5

how many police on shift in London at any one time

Answer 5

1 300

Question 6

what does going on the beat mean

Answer 6

patrolling alleys in set routines, stopping and questioning people

Question 7

how many max officers would go on beat at the same time

Answer 7

2

Question 8

when was met police established

Answer 8

1829

Question 9

when was police force expanded to whole of UK

Answer 9

1856

Question 10

when was the police in London expanded to 22 divisions

Answer 10

1888

Question 11

what age were policemen required to be

Answer 11

over 21 and under 35

Question 12

policemen had to be __ and to be able to ___ and __

Answer 12

fit read write

Question 13

policemen could have no more than __ children

Answer 13

2

Question 14

what did policemen wear

Answer 14

blue uniform
brunswick star

Question 15

what were policemen armed with

Answer 15

truncheon and lamp

Question 16

give 2 ways the city’s layout made police vulnerable

Answer 16

lots of alleys difficult to keep watch over

Question 17

how did poverty in Whitechapel make H division’s work harder

Answer 17

led many into crime
and promoted distrust and fear of authority

Question 18

police were ____ by the public significantly

Answer 18

outnumbered

Question 19

why didn’t socialists like the police

Answer 19

they thought they enforced unfair and undemocratic laws

Question 20

why didn’t fenians and anarchists like the police

Answer 20

they are a symbol of state control and the power of the British empire

Question 21

when was the vigilance committee set up

Answer 21

1888

Question 22

how many women were killed in the ripper murders

Answer 22

5

Question 23

all of the women killed were what class

Answer 23

working class

Question 24

when did Mary Ann Nichols die

Answer 24

31st august 1888

Question 25

who was the first woman to die

Answer 25

Mary ann nichols

Question 26

when Mary Ann Nichols was found was the scene exactly as it had been following the murder

Answer 26

no - two men had tidied it

Question 27

how was Mary Ann Nichols found

Answer 27

throat slit and stab wounds in chest

Question 28

Mary ann nichols was likely to have been what

Answer 28

an alcoholic