"The Jago."

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 144, 12 May 1900, Page 3

" The Jago."

; bl'©*«iriessages 'occasionally refer to the scheme 'of ttie London' County 'Ctfuncil 'for 'ttie better, htousirig ;'of *the forking classes, but' they 'do* not gi4± any • idea ofjs tfeo niagnitntle of the good work the ' Council hate bad in hand ltor ,many .years. A, part of the 1 tfSliefonV'is 'the building 'of! dwellings on the Bonadary StteetEstatejin'Shoreditcb^ which lias ■jiisfc been /The ; g/'eat" undertaking was started *in-1590.-ahd»as all the-'ttitfeYnents v aie nbw occupied, th^'re is a populations' of $0(!H) r persons ' oti-the estate, are 1 )! is Seventeen, acres and a half,[ and -ib consists *'oJ: l^veuty-three bldc-krf of wibcJfl, 'cl.weliing^ com- 1 .prisi n g itrall-IIPO • In m;\]fin'g""Hlie YatTO^s bl'oek& 'of b^Wdipgs/aimifdrin Byfetenl^ '.has!; bean 'adopted, feach 'block b^ing, natAed citVettaspiace'.d't th*B B(iyej> ' Th'aVes, ' Well a^^pTow, IffleyV -"Heji^f, Sandford, and f A^a^gfafe.' '^Tb'e idtet feCeltheisfS; *ffi£gj& r^^t f& a" 1 ifenta I- oi^3^6d a \y&&]i^ OB^iii ~l$&i& , ,cvf\twg rgqihsat-a rental^ df from" ■^3; OU'tb^^'ii v^tfk'j e r roqif% ckii bJ^oßtaln^d hi from «7s J6(9 to 9e^and^f olti' r6tt«&4M*oza ' $*-' tb' -'f or^tlie^ J batli-

of steam mangJo!- 1 , ■wri/igugi machine^ ircMiuj b ;n Vtrii yn j boiling v/atei I'oi* .-turcli, <x'<, ..v outlay of [id per Lour. The dwellings' lia^e been' constructed round & circus, in which a bandstarfd has been' erected/A rhiniafure park hag been laid out in the circus. ' 'On the' "estate there are two Board schools, one Church' school, *tfrfd* v tWo'tfhttrcfces, One of which enjoys enjoys' the unique privilege' of having been built over a common -lodging-house. One of the most interesting-fea-tures of the Boundary Street Estafe is that it has been built on the site^of -one of the- most notorious slum districts ■in ' Lasdoja. It was (V kridwn as [ the '"Old Nichol," ' and is described minutely, under the title of *' The Jago," in Mr Arthur Morrisons story enfei-tled "A', Child "of the Jago." "(Vhen the County Council began its work in 1890, it was discovered that the 'death rate iri tlie place' was' 4o.l3 per 1000, as against " 18.8 per 1000 for the mm of ' London. A 'large population was displaced undei the Council's, schenie, and the &lmn clearance revealed'a pitiable state of affairs. In two common lodging-bouses, 133 pseeple "were found , to bw living, 2118 people were living in 752 single roms, sad ,22(]5 in *500 two-roomed tenements. The-in-habitants consisted of the poorest class of unskilled labourers, am 1 , in addition' to iarge numbers ot btitton-tnakerf, 'box-makers, and 'charwomen, incruded^someof thQ vilest characters in London.