Outcast London by Gareth Stedman Jones

Author:Gareth Stedman Jones [Stedman, Gareth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2014-08-19T00:00:00+00:00

In most districts surrounding the City however, especially those in a radius from a quarter to three-quarters of a mile from the City borders, deterioration and an increase in overcrowding were constant from the 1840s to the 1880s.

Those districts in which population per house reached its peak earliest were generally the districts in which the most substantial amount of demolition took place. In the case of the City itself and some parts of Holborn and the Strand these displacements were substantial enough to change the social character of the districts and to convert them into non-residential areas; thus later statistics of population per house ha ve little significance. But in certain of these districts, notably in those where housing was being sacrificed to the extension of workshops and small factories like parts of St. Luke’s, Shoreditch, and Whitechapel, overcrowding was doubly intensified, since new centres of employment attracted additional labour into the area to compete for a diminishing amount of house room.

Persons per house

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