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The Housing of the Working-Class Act, 1890

Quarry Hill Unhealthy Area, 1900s

Book of Reference

Data Scrapping

This reference book offers a comprehensive overview of Quarry Hill Unhealthy Area, the 1900s including information about its properties, streets, reserve plots, and property’s owners and tenants. As an industrial city, the majority of its residents were working families and tenants. Our group has focused on researching the available professions during the 1900s and comparing them to those in today's digital era.

Manual Data Scraping

The Quarry Hill Unhealthy Area, the 1900s historical reference book, is comprised of four volumes. However, for this investigation, only the first volume was examined as a preliminary investigation, which contains 1,011 entries that represent the study’s overall population. The reference book provides information about Quarry Hill residents during the 1900s, including the location and description of the property, the occupier's name, and profession, and whether the resident is the owner, reputed owner, or lessee. The focus of this study is on the professions of the residents, and thus a data extraction template was created to manually scrape data based on property occupancy (occupied, unoccupied properties, and occupants' gender), employment status (employed or unemployed and their gender), residents' professions, and demographic profile, whether the occupier is a tenant or owner of the property.

Area of Study – Quarry Hill Unhealthy Area, 1900 Reference Book - Part - I
Serial Volume Published Entries
1 Part I November 1900 1 – 1011
2 Part II " 1012 - 1858
3 Part III " 1859 – 2750
4 Part IV " 2751 - 3435