The Morning Chronicle survey of labour and the poor: the metropolitan districts. - Volume 1

In the years 1849 and 1850, Henry Mayhew was the metropolitan correspondent of the 'Morning Chronicle' in its national survey of labour and the poor.

Only about a third of his Morning Chronicle material was included in his later and better known, publication, 'London Labour and the London Poor'.

First published in 1981, this series of six volumes constitutes Henry Mayhew's complete 'Morning Chronicle' survey, in the sequence in which it was originally written in 1849 and 1850.

It addresses a wealth of topics from cholera in the Jacob's Island area and to the food markets of London.

This first volume contains letters from October to November 1849.