Alfred Dickens

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Alfred Dickens was a brother of the Victorian novelist, Charles Dickens. Early in his career, he was an engineer for the Malton & Driffield Railway. Later, in 1855, he wrote a report which highlighted the terrible overcrowding suffered by many people in the Canning Town area of London. His brother Charles also wrote about the squalid conditions in which people were forced to live in Victorian times.

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Alfred Dickens (1855). Sewerage, Drainage and Supply of Water and the Sanitary Condition of the Inhabitants of West Ham. 

Charles Dickens (1857). Londoners over the Border.