Great Fire of London Pearson. Another monument marks the spot where the fire stopped: the Golden Boy of Pye Corner in Smithfield. According to the inscription, it was evidence of God's wrath on the City of London for the sin of gluttony that the fire started at Pudding Lane and stopped at Pye Corner. The Great Plague epidemic of 1665 is believed to have killed a sixth of London's inhabitants, or 80,000 people, and it is sometimes suggested that the fire saved lives in the long run by burning down so much unsanitary housing with their rats and their fleas which transmitted the plague,
Life and Labour of the People in London appeared 1902-3. A noteworthy feature of the study was the production of maps describing poverty ("see illustration on the right"). Levels of wealth and poverty found by the research's investigators being mapped out on a street by street basis. The notebooks used to carry out this investigation are held at the Archives Division of the British Library of Political and Economic Science (London School of Economics and Political Science). Life and Labour of the People in London Life and Labour of the People in London was a multi-volume book by Charles Booth which provided a survey of the lives and