Wise Sarah:
The Blackest Streets
The Life And Death Of A Victorian Slum
Vintage (United Kingdom), 2009
Paperback, 352 pages
Size: 198x129 mm
ISBN: 9781844133314
ISBN-10: 1844133311
List price: £9.99
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The Blackest Streets
In 1887 Government inspectors were sent to investigate the Old Nichol, a slum on the boundary of Bethnal Green parish, where almost 6,000 inhabitants were crammed into thirty or so streets of rotting dwellings and where the mortality rate ran at nearly twice that of the rest of Bethnal Green. This work evokes the texture of life at that time.

