Henry Mayhew 
Voices of the Poor [PDF ebook] 
Selections from the "Morning Chronicle" "Labour and the Poor"

First Published in 1971. This is a collection of the influential letters (or articles) on the  »Labour and the Poor » written by Henry Mayhew for the Morning Chronicle as part of his contributions to the papers » survey of conditions among the lower classes. Charles Kingsley and the Christian Socialists pressed for sanitation reform because of Mayhew »s revelations about Jacob »s Island, a slum in south London.