Volume 1

Labour and life of the people / edited by Charles Booth.

Date:: 1889-

Credit: Labour and life of the people / edited by Charles Booth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

615/622 page 599

$ha — 2 Sie vfs >CRIPT a | eter ae pe iss ate a }| _ The Map includes Whitechapel, St. George’s-in-the-East, Stepney, | End Old Town, Bethnal Green, most of Shoreditch, and part of Poplar. The streets are coloured according to the general condition of the ; inhabitants, as follows : Well-to-do .....+..+ss0ese00+ Professional classes and large shopkeepers GR Fairly comfortadle...... Regular employment, good ordinary earn- — © (little or no poverty) ings. ba ea Mized with poverty...... Some comfortable, others poor Those who have a fairly regular, though bare income, as 18/- to 21/- per week, for a moderate family. and are in chronic want ake! Very poor, lowest class... Vicious, semi-criminal. The proportions of the classes in East London may be stated — numerically as follows :— : { Those who fall below the above standard EPRRIOUSE Bz. aL oo OF THE REGENT'S CANAL mar Old Town ree? od tt SHADWELL NEW BASIN lot de-d tera |e pes GLower Middle Class........| 21 | 29 | 44 7 ease whe { HUpper Middle Class............ 12 1:2 18 3 . 7 : 100: [100° |100- ips 100° } KATIL uxf sf Poppalathonh eesncntess cpa ntecaceesie7 121,161|127,641| 78,518) 47, 110,321 1 ‘ . a, , i?) Fa Pa 4 8 FURLONGS t MILE Graphically the proportions of the classes may be represented$

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