Rookeries

The cholera had come, and it is true that the cholera had done something to improve the condition of the Rookeries; but not enough, for still dogs were stolen and the dogs of Wimpole

Flush: a biography 2004

For an account of London Rookeries, The Rookeries of London, by

Flush: a biography 2004

Its real purpose, not to put too fine a point on it, was to intimidate the newspapers, lest, if the "Clarion" broke the politic silence, others might follow; and, as a secondary step, to furnish funds for the handling of the Rookeries situation.

The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

While Ellis and his specially detailed reporter were working out the story of the Rookeries epidemic in the light of Dr. Elliot's information, Hal Surtaine, floundering blindly, sought a solution to his problem, which was the problem of his newspaper.

The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

-- "No doctor that knows his business --" -- "They say doctors are shut out of the Rookeries."

The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

Rumors reached the office that he was striving to gain a refuge from his sufferings by giving all his leisure hours to work in the Rookeries district, under the direction of the Reverend Norman Hale.

The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

Some involution of trusteeship in the case of two freeholds in Sadler's Shacks, at the heart of the Rookeries, had delayed access to the records.

The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

As for the Rookeries epidemic upon which all this turned, what did he really know of it, anyway?

The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

Those two sturdy volunteers, Miss Elliot and Miss Pierce, were driving slowly along the fringe of the Rookeries, -- yes, slowly, notwithstanding that Kathleen Pierce was acting as her own chauffeur, -- having just delivered a consignment of emergency nurses from a neighboring city to

The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

"I've heard it stated on medical authority that there is some sort of plague in the Rookeries."

The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914