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• W370066437 abstract "The recent news that Dickens had lived doors from a workhouse in London's Fitzrovia went round Dickens circles like wildfire, and a goodly proportion of the signatories of the e-petition which helped save the building were Dickens aficionados. The UK government announced on March 14 2011 that the building has been given Grade II status on the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, so it is now protected from demolition. There is then an appeal period of 28 days, which ends on April 11. (1) Those who read their Dickens Quarterly soon after it arrives will have seen the beautiful calling card belonging to the young Mr. Dickens reproduced in the last issue. With it was a promise that a fuller account of the discovery would follow, and this article is offered in fulfillment of that undertaking. I'm primarily a historian, but of course history and literature do not have a hard-and-fast boundary, and I'm trained in both fields. My book Death Dissection and the Destitute came from a flesh reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It was during the research for that book in the 1980s, that I first came across mention of the Cleveland Street Workhouse in the fine autobiographical volume Reminiscences of a Workhouse Medical Officer, by Dr. Joseph Rogers, published posthumously in 1889. The title may not appear promising, but it says what it is, and the man's straightforwardness was what made him such a champion of poor workhouse inmates. When Rogers was working in Cleveland Street in the 1850s-60s all the workhouses of London were bursting at the seams, trying to cope with large numbers of sick poor within the mean circumstances of confined sites and a dismal penny-pinching regime. The population of sick, elderly, disabled, childbearing and dying people for whom Rogers was employed to care was equivalent to that of a major London teaching hospital, yet he had no staff, no student assistants, no trained nurses, no drugs budget, and only a single purpose-built sick ward. In 1866, 556 people were sharing 332 beds, with sick or dying in every ward. Many had to crawl to the ends of their beds to get out, as there was no room at the sides. The medicines Rogers administered to those in his care came out of his own wages. Other doctors prescribed colored and flavored water, so as to retain their earnings. Rogers campaigned to change things, and with good support from many quarters (including from Charles Dickens, as we shall see in a moment) eventually largely succeeded in bringing change, The efforts begun at Cleveland Street were finally successful in the late 1860s in forcing official recognition that sickness and infirmity were the root of much of the poverty the workhouse system had been designed to punish. New infirmaries for the sick poor were erected in the 1870s across the country. Dr. Rogers retired to a house overlooking one of the earliest of these new infirmaries, erected in Hampstead in 1869. So although Dickens did not live to see the full change, he knew it was on its way. Rogers described the old workhouse regime from the inside. He provides us with a clear, humane and uncompromising view of the mean-spirited management of a Victorian inner-city workhouse, the difficult role of the humane doctor, the suffering and the insanitary overcrowded conditions the inmates endured. It is, as far as is known, the only memoir published by a Victorian workhouse doctor. I and my husband wrote about Rogers's life's work in the British Medical Journal on the centenary of his death in 1989, and shortly thereafter we obtained an official blue plaque honoring him on his old home/apothecary's shop at 33 Dean Street, Soho. I have mentioned our article, published twenty years ago now, because it proved important both in the battle to save the workhouse, and in the discovery that Dickens had lived so closely nearby. A savvy local campaigner found it on the internet, and contacted me to see if I might help. …" @default.
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