Truly heart breaking story and a true eye opener to the devastation that occurred then and unfortunately still to this day throughout the world. Thank you for this informative story.

Absolutely dreadful, but such thoughtful coverage of these poor souls. Well done, Richard.

This is harder to listen to than the murders of JTR. This is sadder, and so much more difficult to stomach.

These stories just add another layer to the overall Victorian mythos. Jack may be a ripper, but starvation is pure death. Great video.

Oh yes,,,,my family came from East End, I was brought in Middle class in South London, but my grandad was a docker just after Victorian times , bad houses, even my parents as young in horrible East End London houses, I love London, Grandad told me me about Jack the Ripper as a kid, of what his father told him, I got in to the case. I still Cannot understand how even today, 5 mins to the West End, from East, rich and the Elite that still divides today, Ive moved away from London like lot of real Londoners have, no such thing as a true cockney now, what strong people they were. Proud to have ancestors to give me strong blood. God bless to to those survived, and died with a fire in there belly, not food, they did not stand a chance. Great content, respectfully done. Nice.

I honestly wonder how many people die of starvation in London in this day and age. More than we think, would be my guess. 🤔

Those 73 deaths are the ones diagnosed as being directly caused by starvation, which is horrific enough. Thank you for enlightening me; it was shocking knowledge. I knew that hunger and malnutrition were rife, but hadn't known there were starvation deaths. What a frightening thought. However then I wondered about deaths due to the effects of starvation. How many more perished due to flu or infection because they were weak, their immune systems non-existent? Think of being "hangry" today and multiple by a factor of a thousand, long term. How many street fights were caused by, and had fatal results due to starvation, and how many more domestic violence deaths were caused by it? Then there's accidents that were just put down as carelessness. Children labouring in the mills lost concentration for a second due to extreme hunger, and got fatally caught in machines. And finally, there must have been burglaries and robberies when the perpetrators were just too hungry to care about morals or the consequences. Ironically they'd be easier to catch too.

Memento Mori. Cherish your life and your loved ones. I love this channel! Thanks for sharing Rich!

Dear God… I remember accounts of family members in Whitechapel selling themselves off for food and shillings back then from the time of Dickens all the way to the 1880’s and 1890’s, Such a tragedy.

The phantom killer that is the subject of this video will never be as infamous as the Ripper despite their prolific work, because they are predictable and painfully unimaginative in method. Effective, but unimaginative. Ripper shocked people even in the darkest slums of London because he seemingly came out of nowhere and vanished into nothing. People can see the one killer come, but not the other. And people fear what is unseen more than what is seen. They cannot assess the unknown as well as the known. And therefore they cannot as easily avoid it.

A very sad and tragic story. How awful that there was so much poverty in the victorian times. How so many victims of that killer called starvation were overshadowed by such stories like that of Jack the Ripper. It was so wrong that the higher up people back in the day really didn't seem to give a damn did they and I must say in some instances it isn't much better now. Such a real tragedy. God rest their dear souls and may they be in eternal peace. Thank you Richard for the way you have told us this story. Very moving but professional as always. With best wishes.

So tragic…we’re lucky to be here given what some of our ancestors endured

You sensitivity in this reporting was notable. Thank you. It's an indication of your point that newspaper journalists and editors knew about the privation suffered by East Enders. They published several reports on deaths by starvation and could surely have roused public support. That they didn't try says a lot about the people who bought their newspapers.

I find it fascinating that there was seemingly so little diversity in the "given" names of females in 19th century England. It seems like every other woman was named either Mary, Elizabeth or Anne.

😥 I so glad you've brought this to more people's attention. Since we have not learned the past, we are doomed to repeat it. The USA, where I live, poverty is *still* widely considered a sin of the victims, who just didn't try hard enough to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, ignoring the fact that so many weren't born with bootstraps. And many people don't care about children at all after they're born

Hey.....3 uploads in a week!You are on fire pal.And the quality is as always excellent.Thanx alot!!!!

Very good video,the government simply didn't care about these poor people, whether they were starving to death or being murdered..it was all the same to them.shameful.

And yet we still have that to this day

You are a wonderful, humane person. Thank you for this, we must never forget what, essentially our ancestors, experienced. God bless them.❤️

This is a sad yet thoughtful and very telling commentary. People may have judged the five ripper victims harshly because of their chosen profession but, I hazard to say that, had they not, they would be in the same position. It’s absolutely inexcusable for any civilized, developed country to have their citizens suffer so. It still happens today…

Really interesting never heard of some of them. Thanks 👍

Masterful. A true warning from history.

Tragic story ,,u read stories ,u know some history, but you never connect death from starvation with the era shocking but eye opening brilliant video,great research,,

My Ancestor was born in Marylebone in 1818 , he and his family lived at various addresses in Whitechapel earning his living as a street Hawker selling cutlery . Two of his children died at a early age. His common law wife separated from him leaving the Parish and obtaining accommodation from the Church. She stated that she was a widow? Her husband in fact lived until 1885 having moved out to Brentford self-employed Oilman leaving £150 in his will a tidy sum, but not to any relative . His father 1792-1867 died in the work house. Did you work to live or did you live to work? Rents had to be paid to the land owners who exploited the poor ie the Church of England and some of the aristocracy.

Thank you richard,as a well off country now its right we learn this ,but begs the question where was the church authority help and were not the established royals living a life of extreme luxury and opulence while their subjects starved. Thank you Richard x

Sir, I LOVE your vlogs! Thank you for your presentaions.

I don’t think people didn’t care about starvation but it’s human nature to gravitate to the dramatic. Hence the obsession with jack

Such lovingly crafted videos. Well done you.

Sad truths

This ia an excellent piece.

Brutally honest quote by George Bernard Shaw. Great video as always.

Very well done sir

Unexpected though very true. And this at a time the British Empire was at its height and London the center of wealth. So sad. And I don't think we've learned or changed much. Not really.

Really interesting and informative.

Sad watch, but thanks for sharing.

When you consider the unimportance of j.t.r s victims, it makes you realise how over.romanticised it's become. I often wonder if, in the day the police weren't that interested, lots of other things to concern them going off. Only five victims! So j.t.r wasn't the first serial killer after all! Interesting video 👍

IM HERE ONCE AGAIN, I SALUTE YOU RICHARD JONES. CAN YOU DO AN EPISODE ABOUT THE BATTY STREET LODGER PLEASE.

The fact that the mother was blamed that her child - who she did try to save! - was to blame, is too cruel. In a society where women made far less money than men and had far fewer chances in life she could not have done more than she did. I hope that she did not go to prison or suffered any punishment for being dealt a very bad hand in life.

I cannot remember, but I think it was Plato who said that . . . 'a Society shall be judged by how well it cares for it's elderly & infirm'. Such poverty is inexcusable when the elite & ruling classes dwell in absurd opulence. Those inheriting the 21st century need to be reminded. Thank You Mr. Jones

A terrible time to live.

People generally don't like such figures. I don't want to seem callous but perhaps a child is murdered and it is awful. So what is the best way to prevent your child from suffering a violent death? Put him/her in a child seat in the car, make sure your house wiring is safe, train your child to use a crossing and to wait for the green man flashing. You have immediately greatly increased the chances of the child surviving.

1:45. I'm gonna get that tattoo soon.

Ironic that, currently, we can't seem to get a handle on another killer - obesity!

It really makes you think what do the Conservatives mean when they say they want 'a return to Victorian values'...

How much longer before it happens again too late it already is

Every serial killer has made some damaged to society. But in Jack the ripper case he went beyond that. His myth is still alive. His crimes are going to be remebered as the most atrocious and intriguing . His real motivations are going to be a mistery. Even if Jack is eventually discovered. And the time of terror created by him will be only compared with other misterious killer like the zodiac

The whole of humanity never learn from the past. A person with a doctorate in history should be the next president. Sadhguru , if only he would 😉

1:05 wow really? Done.

Having watched a lot of your great content and read the brilliant book The Five by Hallie Rubenhold, I think we know who Jack was: “he” was history, he was capitalism, he was indifference and his face can be mine or yours or the face of everybody else who happens to pass by someone in want and does nothing.

I wonder when and how all this starvation got elevated.

To be honest I get a bit fed up with people claiming that these women were 'forced into prostitution'. Like 99.9% of prostitutes in history, they chose to do this because they weren't interested in working a proper job. Certainly Jack the Ripper's victims could have had jobs if they wanted: indeed one of them actually started work, but after a few days she ran off with some of her employer's possessions and went back on the street. Of course, this work would have been fairly hard, but nothing worse than the jobs being done in the East End by almost all men, and quite a few women. You find the same with the victims of the Long Island Serial Killer: ordinary girls who could easily have found work as clerks or shop-assistants or something better, but realised they could make more money in a few hours as a prostitute as they could doing 40 hours in a regular job.

Although I commend the highlighting of poverty and relative effect it had on the population I must push back in several ways and against several logical and economic fallacies inferred in this video. Firstly there is the overarching of rather fashionable inference that capitalism is bad, wealth creation is bad and we need 'change', we need more ' equality' and more free stuff for poor people. Victorian London( 130 years ago) was clearly a city of two halves but as this video highlights nicely there were quite well developed systems in place for caring for people in desperate need. Secondly lets take into account the perspective of the deaths. We're talking about 30 and 40 people a year in the biggest city in the world. That is a tiny number. You could go to lots of large cities in less free market and less capitalistic, less free countries and find much higher numbers throughout most of the 20th century. Londons starvation rate in 1888 was around 1 in 200,000 . That is Nothing. starvation in socialist countries in the 20th century was around 100,000,000 or 1 in 20. One in Twenty. Literally 10,000 times worse. So why does this video seem to make sense ? well its very emotional and well read, the stories really are terrible yes. The reason it works however is because a lot of London was very wealthy. In the mind of the liberal or even well meaning centrist this means that there is ' inequality' because someone somewhere wasn't happy / healthy to a degree. The fallacy here is that there is a magical constant amount of ' wealth' or standard of living and that ' wealth' must be shared equally among all, if people are Rich then there must be victims. This is a fallacy. Alls government interference in economics and socialist biased endeavours have ever done is to remove the wealth. The poor people always remain. Extreme examples of course are Stalinist Russia and Maoist China ( where if you didn't starve you would be extremely poor) but you can see the exact same fallacy applied in post depression America or in fact 1970's Britain. Thirdly, and most insidious I think is the use of London in 1888 as an example of how top hat wearing capitalism is evil and we need more equality etc... It was 130 years ago ! the system needed a tweak, which was done, and then starvation was basically eradicated. Done. it really is a form of gaslighting to use London in 1888 as an example of the inequality of western freemarket systems. Its very similar in fact to the blaming of slavery on white English people when they had very little to do with yet were the first to abolish it, not only in England but the colonies and spent a lot of money and mens lives enforcing that abolishment. Many other races, religions and countries continued slavery and practiced it to a much greater degree before and since. Its 180 degrees wrong in its inferences. Another misleading element is the accuracy in which ' starvation ' is applied. For example the girl was clearly starved to death by her mother, there were governmental ways in which the child could have been saved and systems in place. A friend or family member could have given her food. The inference in all these is that there was a lack of food or inability to access necessary care. That is true in communist Russia or Mao's China where there was no food, literally zero food and no one who cared. How do we know that the old couple who starved didn't have other health issues leading to a lack of appetite or increased metabolism, maybe they were just overlooked by the social services of the day and actually could have been cared for somehow ? Food was very cheap and plentiful in Victorian London, hence why very few people starved despite being very poor, why several of the rippers victims were fat .

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The Church of England and some of the aristocracy owned property which was rented out to the poor. The poor were very fluid in moving from place to place in seeking affordable rent. But there was always the work house.

Grim times indeed, where was our so called privelege?

Our society still does it. You wouldn't believe it would yer if you dont do as ur told they stop your pittance a month This is the people we watch on TV and also the people we see everyday, who's willing to pick up the power at your expense

Was this white privilage .??? Let's not forget our forefathers suffering

Excellent video giving the viewer a better understanding of the world in which jtr's victims lived and died. Comment posters here attempting to compare and contrast the living conditions in the poorest of Victorian London and either London or the US today; push off to a current affairs YT channel. You clearly have no desire to learn about the past. Political point-scoring is best *left* to your *right*ful propaganda YT'ers. This video is about a historical socio-economic strata. It is very specific to a time and place that no viewer here has or will experience. Take history for what it is was in the context of when and where it occurred. Then, feel free to apply your understanding of historical circumstances into a discussion of experiences universal to the human condition.

I’d say deaths not murders

Unfortunately the right wing here in the US don't see this as a tragedy but a feature. To them, poverty, starvation, disease, it's all the result of moral failing, and anyone in these situations just isn't working hard enough and society would be better served by their deaths or their slave labor in prison. This is why they're constantly doing all they can to return us to the state of things in your videos: no safety net, no minimum wage, no regulation, no access to healthcare, and the harshest possible sentences for all crimes. And the saddest part is all the poor people cheering on the return to serfdom.

Socialism is ALWAYS inept.

Social democrats ?... sounds like Saucy Jack needs to do some more killin