“Not what It was made out” : hygiene, health, and moral welfare in the Old Nichol, 1880-1900 / Flore Janssen

Unsanitary conditions in the Old Nichol were frequently invoked as a threat to public health and a justification for the clearance scheme that the area was undergoing at the end of the nineteenth century. A Child of the Jago follows these contemporary discourses by bracketing together the neighborhood’s insalubrious state with the moral character of its residents. Yet many social investigators made a point of countering these common depictions of the Old Nichol’s inhabitants. This chapter explores how journalism and social investigation in the 1880s and 1890s attempted to influence the neighborhood’s reputation as physically and morally corrupt and infectious..

Medienart:

E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

Abingdon (UK): Routledge ; 2022

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Janssen, Flore [VerfasserIn]

Links:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [teilw. kostenfrei]

Themen:

History, 19th Century
Journalism
London
Morals
Poverty Areas
Social Problems
Urban Health
Urban Renewal

Anmerkungen:

Chapter 5 of the book: Critical essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End. Abingdon (UK) : Routledge, 2022. - Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed October 10, 2023)

Umfang:

1 online resource (1 PDF file (pages 98-115)) ; illustration

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

1869385985