John Marriott & Masaie Matsumura 
Metropolitan Poor Vol 1 [PDF ebook] 
Semifactual Accounts, 1795-1910

This is a collection of primary materials on the metropolitan poor. It includes the writings of urban travellers and social reformers, and contains writings from the last five years of the 18th century, that is, from the time when the poor were first discovered as endemic to the nation.