"In one of these courts there stands directly at the entrance, at the end of the cover that the inhabitants can pass into and out of the court only by passing through foul
Below it on the river there are several tanneries which fill the whole neighbourhoo
Below Ducie Bridge the only entrance to most of the houses is by means of narrow,
filth. The first court below Ducie Bridge, known as Allen's Court, was in such a state
police ordered it evacuated, swept, and disinfected with chloride of lime..."
excerpt from Friedrick Engels, The Conditions of the Working Class in England (18
Engles is referring to what Industrial-era demographic change?
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