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    Sex, drink or violence was usually the trouble, as when Jemima Hiscock “forced open the door of the little beer cellar with knives and drank until she was dead drunk; when she used the most horrible language and made a very repulsive exhibition of herself”, or when Sarah Hyam was found “carrying on in the kitchen with the Police constable employed to watch the place”.

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