Whitechapel c.1888

• Who produced the map of poverty in Whitechapel? Year?

  Charles Booth in 1889
• How many lodgers were in just 32 ‘doss houses‘ or rookeries in 1871? Name the street.

  902 lodgers on Flower and Dean St.
• Whitechapel had 188.6 people per acre, compared to 45 people per acre for all of London.
• What was the positive and negative side of the Peabody Trust?

  They improved flats but this made them unaffordable for local people
• What was a common job for people in the Workhouse?

  Picking oakum
• How many Russian Jewish people arrived in London between…?

  Thirty thousand, from 1881 to 1891
• What did some Jewish immigrants bring to London? What did they start because of it?

  They brought radical ideas of socialism and set up a newspaper called the ‘Worker’s Friend’
• Where did prostitutes commonly work in Whitechapel?

  Around pubs, such as ‘The Ten Bells’.
• What caused a lot of problems for the police?

  Alcohol
• June 1st 1887, 16 out of 17 cases in the Thames Police Court involved drunkenness.
• In 1877, what did ‘the Trial of the Detectives’ highlight?

  corruption and bribery within the police
• What did Howard Vincent publish in 1881?

  The ‘Police Code’ - it detailed how to protect a crime scene and take witness statements
• Why was Commissioner Sir Charles Warren criticised by the press?

  He introduced military style drills into the police force
• What did ‘The Beat’ outline in 1871?

  ’Instruction Book for Candidates and Constables’
• What were the most common crimes deal with by the Thames Police court?

  In 188 7, crimes were 32% ‘disorderly’, 27% property and 24% violence
• What did George Lusk set up? Why?

  The Vigilance Committee to try and catch Jack the Ripper. This was because he did not believe the police were up to the job.
• What was sent to Lusk from a person claiming to be the ’Ripper’?

  A letter addressed ‘From Hell’, claiming it was from The Ripper and it contained a human kidney. It was believed to be a ’hoax’.
• Why were witness statements not always reliable?

  People were often drunk on alcohol or due to hysteria created by the press
• Matthew Packer made up a description to the ‘Evening News’ of Elizabeth Stride’s attacker
• How many people were interviewed by police following ‘the double event’?

  two thousand
• What did Dr Thomas Bond, a police surgeon, create the first of?

  The first documented criminal profile
• What was Dr Thomas Bond asked to use to create the criminal profile?

  Evidence from the crime scene
• Who criticised the plan to use bloodhounds?

  The press