“Of the 456,877 people who lived in the East End, a quarter of a million had Whitechapel as their home, and at any one time 15,000 of it’s residents were classed as homeless. Disease, hunger, neglect and even violence would claim the lives of one in four children before they reached the age of five.”
Quote taken from Jack The Ripper: The Casebook written by Richard Jones
This statistic is referring to life in the Whitechapel area in the year 1888, the same year that the Ripper murders occured.
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