Housing

Question 1

Rookeries

Answer 1

slum areas of terribly overcrowded and filthy housing, crime and poverty were notorious

Question 2

What was Flower and Dean street and what was its death rate?

Answer 2

A rookery that had a reputation for thieves, drunkards and prostitutes, 50 in 1000+ was the annual death rate after 1865

Question 3

What were Doss houses and how many were there in whitechapel?

Answer 3

Lodging houses in rookeries, there were over 200 in Whitechapel where people stayed overnight, even on shifts. They had outside toilets

Question 4

Workhouse/Casual Ward

Answer 4

Last resort, families were segregated, made to do hard work such as cleaning and picking oakum

Question 5

How many inmates could the Casual Ward contain?

Answer 5

400 inmates

Question 6

Number of spaces at the Casual
Ward for those who just wanted
to stay for one night

Answer 6

60

Question 7

What was the Peabody estate?

Answer 7

Blocks of flats designed for better living conditions and affordable rents that were built after slum clearance by the Peabody Trust

Question 8

What improvements did the Peabody Estate contain?

Answer 8

Unplastered walls to keep out lice, brick walls, yards to improve ventilation

Question 9

How many Peabody flats were built in 1881?

Answer 9

287 flats

Question 10

Types of employment in Whitechapel

Answer 10

Sweatshops (shoemaking, tailoring and making match sticks), railways and docks, workhous, crime (high rates as residents turned to prostitution and theft rather than going to workouse)

Question 11

How many people were living in each acre in Whitechapel?

Answer 11

188.6 people per acre

Question 12

What was the amount of square footage per person?

Answer 12

25.6