@inbook{d1334634db3c4ec0a2ac02cb04492cb8,
title = "{"}Not What It Was Made Out{"}: Hygiene, Health, and Moral Welfare in the Old Nichol, 1880–1900",
abstract = "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{\textquoteright}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{\textquoteright}s inhabitants. This chapter explores how journalism and social investigation in the 1880s and 1890s attempted to influence the neighborhood{\textquoteright}s reputation as physically and morally corrupt and infectious.",
keywords = "Arthur Morrison, Clementina Black, East End of London, social fiction, medical humanities, nineteenth century",
author = "Flore Janssen",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 selection and editorial matter, Diana Maltz; individual chapters, the contributors.",
year = "2022",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.4324/9781003016489-8",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780367860226",
series = "Among the Victorians and Modernists",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "97--115",
editor = "Diana Maltz",
booktitle = "Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End",
edition = "1",
}