and people of the barracks through the eyes of an investigator working for charles booth NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN booth is perhaps best known for his inquiry into life and labor in london a study of working-class life in london towards the end of the NUMBER_TOKENth century it is thanks to his account and the police that accompanied him on his investigation of the east end that we can bring to light the reality of life for its inhabitants his poverty maps are a well-known if not overly qualitative representation of social inequality in the metropolis his study focused more on class difference moral qualities and character than statistical factors such as income subjective and with the potential to be influenced by whom he interviewed and their own prejudices and grievances particularly the police but perhaps all the more interesting for it you may have your own opinion on his maps and do please watch the video to the end for more discussion about this i would be interested to read your views in the comment section the maps are nevertheless fascinating and all the more graphic for color coding the very poorest streets in dark colors compared to the bright colors of wealthy neighborhoods before we move on please consider clicking the subscribe button for more content like this if you find this video interesting i would really appreciate it if you could give it a thumbs up and share it widely with friends and family you can also support the channel and get access to exclusive perks by becoming a channel member check out the join button and description for more the terrace housing in the limehouse area of the east end was constructed largely in the latter half of the NUMBER_TOKENth century in fact if you stood here at the time the journalist henry mayhew was concerned with the state of the rookeries of saint giles and seven dials in the NUMBER_TOKENs then you would find yourself in a low-lying meadow and marsh the limehouse cut the oldest canal in london would have featured in your eyes as a rather bucolic body of water with saint anne's church limehouse in the distance a handful of houses and workshops a mill here and there and the masts of thames ships on the horizon by the time of buddh's investigation little of that world remained beyond the aforementioned church and the cut which now defined the southern extent of the barracks he described bow and land west of the river lee as a vast township built on low marshy land furthermore he says there is a great deal of jerry building desolate streets spring into existence and fall into decay with startling rapidity and are only made habitable by successive waves of occupation anything will do so that the house be run up any tenant will do who will give the house a start by burning a little coal in it the first tenants come and go till one by one the houses find permanent occupants the streets settle down to respectability and the rents rise or a street may go wrong and get in such a position that no course short of entire destruction seems possible among the early troubles of these streets are fevers resulting it is said from the foul rubbish with which the hollow land has become leveled this district has had many such troubles and is steadily living them down charles booth and his investigators accompanied police on their beats in london and recorded descriptions and characterizations of the streets their inhabitants and industry bow district and particularly the barracks had a dangerous reputation with the police we now
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