If the Whitechapel murders served to expose anything, it was the unspeakably horrendous conditions in which the poor of that district lived. The encampment and riots at Trafalgar Square were merely a conspicuous manifestation of what had been chronically ailing in the East End and impoverished parts of London. It was a cough hacked in the face of the establishment. The emergence of Jack the Ripper was a louder and more violent one still.
