whitechapel

• 1877


  court case on senior officers corruption, international gambling
• 1885


  fenian bombs at HoP and tower of london
• 1886


  out of hand protest, henderson resigns
• 1894


  mug shot system introduced
• 1895


  new recruitment rules
• 1835


  quick response to milbank prison fire, praised in papers
• 1842


  plain clothed policeman, undercover
• 1866


  32000 controlled riot at hyde park, mayne injured
• 1867


  ignored fenian bomb warning
• 1870


  henderson adds new recruitment rules
• 1885 H division


  19 inspectors, 44 sergeants, 441 constables
• lemon street 1881


  2 sergeants, 42 constables
• thames police court


  women frequently tried for disorder, property and violence
• investigation techniques


  careful observation, autopsy, photograph and sketches, identification techniques, interviews
• 31st august 1888


  mary nichols murdered
• 8th september 1888


  anne chapman
• 30th september 1888


  elizabeth stride and catherine eddows
• 9th november 1888

  mary kelly
• jack the ripper suspects


  leather apron, motague druit, aaron kosminsk
• overpublicised ripper murders


  opportunity for sales, unreliable witnesses, unbelieve police hadn't caught him, false suspects, fake letters
• whitechapel vigilance committee 


  george lusk set up, hoax letters, 1888
• difficulties policing whitechapel


  alcohol and pubs, gangs, prostitution, violent demonstrations and attacks on jews
• 1865


  death rate was 50 in 1000 (double rest of london)
• 1876


  bought peabody estate area for slum clearance
• 1879-81


  peabody trust built 287 flats
• features of peabody estate


  offer affordable rate, separate yard, brick and unplastered so no lice
• 1870


  flower and dean streat is well-known rookery
• 1871


  census shows 902 lodgers in 31 doss houses (f+d street)
• feautures of flower and dean street


  narrow road, sewage, thieves, drunkards, prostitutes, vicious semi-criminal on charles booths map
• workhouse rules


  eating, working, bedtime and waking, segregated from family
• workhouse infirmary


  c.400, casual ward only for one night c.60
• 1881-91


  30,000 russian jews
• political ideas around immigration


  socialism, anarchism, fenian irish nationalism, international worker's educational club, worker's friend newspaper
• commissioner edmund henderson


  relaxed police discipline (growing beards)
• 1886


  fenian riot in trafalgar square
• 1880


  thomas titley case, 3800 sign petition against 18th month sentence