The following are examples of stories from the digitised section of the Booth collection at the LSE, describing some of the accounts of drinking and drug-taking discussed with police officers in the period of the late 1890's.

Opium Den in Jamaica Street from Walk with Inspector Carter, District 11 [Poplar and Limehouse], 12 June 1897 in Booth B346, pp119-121.

Another Opium Den from Walk with Inspector Carter, District 11 [Poplar and Limehouse], 12 June 1897 in Booth B346, p129.

Danger for Young girls visiting public houses from Interview with Mr G. C. Whiteley, clerk to Newington Licensing Magistrates, 4 November [1897] in Booth B348, p173.

Abbots coal merchants and their consumption of alcohol from Walk with Inspector Thomas Fitzgerald, District 13 [South Hackney and Hackney], 26 July 1897 in Booth B347, pp5-7.

Women and drinking from Walk with Inspector James Flanagan, District 13 [South Hackney and Hackney], 2 September [1897] in Booth B347, p69.

Description of the Penbury Arms, Amhurst Road, Hackney from Interview with Mr T. Cox, manager of five public houses, 10 November 1897 in Booth B348, p181.