Question

why did Charles Booth ,a Liverpool ship owner conduct the first social survey of low skilled workers in the east end of London in 1887?

Answer 1

The survey was carried out in order to know the total population of London which is in the state of abject poverty.

It was even carried out in order to determine the average age of the middle class.

Reasons for the deaths which were caused in mental asylums and why the state of poor was so pathetic were also to determine.

Answer 2

1.) 1 million Londoners were very poor.

2.) Their average life expectancy was 29 years as against the life expectancy of 55 among the gentry and middle class.

3) The poor had no houses. These people were more than likely to die in a workhouse, hospital or lunatic Asylum.