5.2: local context

• • 1,000 homeless
• • overcrowding: theft
  • unreliable work: stealing, disruptive behaviour
  • prostitution: assault
  • alcoholism: public disorder
  • workhouses: theft
  • orphans: petty crimes, begging
  • immigration: tension & violence between locals and immigrants
• | Pollution & poor sanitation

  • heavily polluted
  • Prevailing wind from west carried smoke and gas fumes
  • little healthy drinking water & sewers ran into the streets
• | overcrowded housing

  • ROOKERIES were overcrowded slums
  • one rookery contained 123 rooms for over 700 people
  • 200 lodging houses, & more than 8000 people, which offered a little more than a bed in squalid conditions
• | model housing- PEABODY ESTATE

  • artisan’s dwelling act: london’s slum clearance
  • 11 new blocks of flat replace the slums, designed by george peabody
  • opened in 1881 and provided over 250 flats at reasonable prices