"The makers of clothes, 18 per cent in Whitechapel, become 9 1/2 per cent in St George's, and fall away to 1 per cent in Stepney. The preparers of food and tobacco, 6 1/2 per cent in Whitechapel, become 4 1/2 per cent in St George's, and drop to about 2 per cent in Stepney. On the other hand, the casual labourers, who are 11 per cent in Stepney, stand at 9 per cent in St George's, and fall away to 4 per cent in Whitechapel, and so also with the other classes of labour, except those with irregular pay..."
I am reading Victorian social exploration writing. To be fair, most of it is a lot more colourful than this, all "the white wings of Charity" and "a vast mass of moral corruption, of heartbreaking misery and absolute godlessness". I'm just afraid I'm going to involuntarily memorise the data and have the most useless bank of knowledge ever, especially as I'm doubtful of some of their methodology.
In other news, my phone's predictive text dictionary includes "Y2K", which now seems like an adorably dated concept, though apparently still one I need to be able to text very quickly.
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Men, skulle du likevel trenge det, så kan jeg lage stilige grafer som visualiserer hvordan produsentene av mat OG tobakk (fin fellesgruppe der) synker i antall til det mikroskopiske etterhvert som man nærmer seg Stepney. For å gjøre fallet mer dramatisk kan vi gjøre skalaen logaritmisk. Jeg ser for meg grafer med en diskret bakgrunn av ost og kjøtt og hvor stablene utgjøres av cigaretter. Bare si ifra! mok mamma
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