Jack the Ripper crimesIn the mid-19th century, England experienced an flood of Irish immigrants, who swelled the populations of England's major cities, including the East End of London. From 1882, Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe Poland and Russia moved into the same area. The pogroms after the attacks of Czar Alexander. 3 1881 was the starting to emigrate in the land of freedom the holy land of Civil rights England. of The civil parish of Whitechapel in London's East End became more and more overfull. Work and housing conditions was chaotic, and a economic underclass established there. Robbery, violence and alcohol habit were usual, and the common poverty drove many women to prostitution. In October 1888, were 1200 police known prostitutes and round 62 brothels only in Whitechapel.