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Andrew Spallek
Chief Inspector
Username: Aspallek
Post Number: 670
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 10, 2004 - 12:39 am: |       |
A Times article from July 18, 1889 (the same issue which reports McKenzie's murder!) relates:
Mr. James Monro, C.B., Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis, has presented his report on the force for the year 1888, and it is now published as a Blue-book.
Does anyone know if a copy of this report exists and if it has been studied? I believe it is largely statistical.
Andy S.
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Phil Hill
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Friday, December 10, 2004 - 1:59 am: | |
I seem to recall that the Victorian's had a system, by which "colour" indicated certain public functions. The remains are "Green Papers" (discussion documents) and White Papers (Government proposals) which still exist today.
If memory serves, red Books related to finance, and as you say, Blue to statistics.
The Stationery Office (previously HMSO) might have a record, if "published" means what it should. Or the British Library.
Talking of libraries...
Incidentally, I am a member of the London Library, a subscription library in St James' Square, London which has been active since the 1840s. I have used it in the past to get copies of police memoirs to read (Macnaghten, Anderson etc) but have never done a systematic search to find out what indirectly Ripper-related material they might have. Next time I am there (I no longer live in London) I will start to explore with a will. They have a largely open-shelf policy and you can find some surprising things as you browse.
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