Where 1/4 of Whitechapel's population lived, paying a nightly fee for a bed and access to a kitchen. Conditions were extremely dirty and unpleasant.
Accommodation in Whitechapel
Families were split up
Conditions were deliberately poor
Workhouses
Considered a last resort, where inmates had to perform hard labour in return for food and bed. Most inmates were elderly, ill, disabled, orphans or unmarried mothers. Conditions were much better than common lodging houses.
Rookeries
Slum areas where most housing was located, with extremely overcrowded and poor sanitation conditions.
Rookeries
Slums
123 rooms
757 people living in it
lodging houses
200 in Whitechapel
8000 or 1/4 (of Whitechapel) living in them
Peabody estate
rookeries knocked down
11 new flats, 286 apartments
very affordable because average wage is 22 shillings and 6 pence and the rent is 3-6 shillings
