Volume 1

Labour and life of the people / edited by Charles Booth ; contributors Charles Booth, Beatrice Potter [and others].

Date:
1889-1891
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Labour and life of the people / edited by Charles Booth ; contributors Charles Booth, Beatrice Potter [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    DES % Sim EACT>|E''^SCH00LYIS,TORS'w 1 O-L V/ - :< l ! fe5 887 is SI 0 NIW TO <5}V The Map includes Whitechapel, St. George's-in-the-East, Stepney, Mile g End Old Town, Bethnal Green, moBt of Shoreditch, and part of Poplar. The streets are coloured according to the general condition of the inhabitants, as follows: | Well-to-do Professional classes and large shopkeepers O^^i Fairly comfortable Regular employment, good ordinary earn- ,. (Utile or no poverty) ings. | Mixed with poverty Some comfortable, others poor i Those who Jtave a fairly regular, though p ) bare income, as IHj- to 21j- per week, for * 1 a moderate family. H , ( Those who fall below tlie above standard . 'v..-.' I Very poor, casual { and are il chronic want '- Very poor, lowest class... Vicious, semi-criminal. of the classes in East London may be stated ^ The proportions ui numerically as follows :— CLASSES. Black ALowest Clans Dk.B]ueBCaeual earnings Idght I CIrreg-olar earnings .. Blue I DRegular minimum _~ . f COrdinary earning* < FHIgbly-paid labour ., _ , I GLower Middle Class . B*° i M Upper Middle Claas Popolation 9-4 IOC 4f>-4 121,161 16D 12-6 14-9 89-9 11-a 2-9 1-2 8-9 lil-7 16-3 48-S 11-3 4-4 M 78,518 47,578 1- 4 15-8 61 14-7 41-6 18-8 4-5 2- 2 So 6-0 12-6 14 0 W o l-8i § 11- 91 w le-il^fct 44-81 V 12- 6 | 3/ 8'8l'Sf in r*^ 100- =S^_ IB «Sai*i-.« 708,675 '''o ij. fpL.ITIIMil /)()( (i.sV^g I | n If '' °° II If [ira:vr.v r./.v.//. V < :u /; <> (' h' S ZW.i f si,,,—- ' I /. O X l> <> i _ T iltU ■ . : - — ■ 4r
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