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Excerpt from Life in West London: A Study and a Contrast It is probable that there is no district in London so comparatively unknown as that portion of West London which is comprised within the area of Soho, and the immediately surrounding district. Mr. Charles Booth, whose investigations in East and South London have been so thorough and exact, has, it is true, published some exceedingly important, and, indeed, invaluable information bearing on the social and industrial conditions of life in Central London, but his investigations, for the most part, are restricted to certain broadly-defined districts, and are therefore incomplete; while the scope of his enquiry prevented him from giving, at any time, more than a casual and indirect clue to the moral and religious conditions of the districts which he investigated. So far as the more intimate facts of its moral and social life are concerned, Soho remains to a very large extent a terra incognita to the outsider. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.