Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Rookery, or Tom-all-alones or Slums

The Rookery St. Giles's 1851

Rookeries or Tom-all-alones were slums. Repeated epidemics of Cholera, Typhus and even the Black Plague should be adequate evidence for our imagination, but if that isn't enough, Henry Mayhew pointed out that polluted water from the Thames was allowed, once a week, into the Rookery ditches to provide a place used in common for sewage as well as drinking water.

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