Whitechapel

• What was the population of whitechape in the 1880s?

  30000
• how many were homeless in whitechapel in the 1880s?


  1000
• Who were the 5 victims of jack the ripper?

  Anne Chapman

  Catherine Eddowes

  Mary Anne Nickols

  Elizabeth Stride

  Mary Jane Kelly
• what techniques did H division try to catch the ripper?


  Sniffer dogs

  soup kitchens

  Visiting lunatic asylums

  dressing up as prostitutes

  interviewing people with medical knowledge

  Public information

  victims messages

  info from journalists
• what problems did the media cause H division?

  lots of exaggeration

  people lied to journalists

  caused hysteria
• what difficulties did H division face when policing Whitechapel?

  lack of housing

  overcrowding

  police distrust

  Whitechapel vigilance committee

  lying media

  alcoholism and drugs

  high crime rates

  prostitution
• Who were the main immigrant groups in Whitechapel?

  Jewish and Irish immigrants.
• who was George lusk?


  Head of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee.
• who was inspector abbeline?

  Inspector Abberline was a detective in the London Metropolitan Police who investigated the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888.
• who was Charles warren?

  Police Commissioner
• what did the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee do?


  tried to catch the ripper and carried burning wood on riots
• who was Jack the Ripper?

  Unknown
• What was labour called when workers were employed for a day?

  Casual
• what year did the public health amendment act aim to improve sewerage and rubbish collection?

  1890
• how many people lived in 31 houses on Flower and Dean street in 1871?

  902
• what percent of east Londoners were in such poverty that they couldn’t feed or clothe themselves according to booth?

  37.5%
• what estate was opened in 1881 that contained 286 flast with improved conditions?

  The Peabody Estate
• how many women did jack the Ripper kill in 1888?

  Five
• who became commisioner of the met police in 1886?

  Charles Warren