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Книга по требованию: First Report Minutes of Evidence

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Taken Before the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Whether Any and What Special Means May Be Requisite for the Improvement of the Health of the Metropolis (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from First Report Minutes of Evidence: Taken Before the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Whether Any and What Special Means May Be Requisite for the Improvement of the Health of the Metropolis

The outlet of a very large one emitting most noxious effluvia was at one of the wharves nearly opposite the western extremity of Burr street. The shipping, chiefly Scotch smacks, lay close to this outlet; on board of which vessels many cases of cholera occurred.

How were the laboring population situated as to crowding, ventilation, supplies of water, and cleanliness1? - In all these respects, wretchedly ; the crowding was excessive, the ventilation bad, the rooms, furniture, and clothes dirty. The water supply was very insufficient; it was an intermittent supply from the water company, distributed in courts, by stand-pipes, on intermittent days. The fatigue of fetching it was so great that it xvas only used for purposes deemed of absolute necessity, such os cooking; the population rarely bestowing much of it on their own clothes or persons. I remember it well, as a fact, that the water, from being kept so long, and absorbing the impurities of these places, often smelt very offensively.

What was the condition of the streets as to paving, cleansing, or scavengering? - The paving in the courts was a rough bowlder paving, like the roadway or paving of the streets; but much neglected (as it is still in many places) with cavities filled, after rain, with decaying vegetable and animal matter, and stagnant or putrid water, the scavenger rarely visiting them.

To what extent were these places visited by epidemics? - Very frequently, and very severely. In 1828-9 I attended the district as the honorary surgeon to the society, called the London Destitute Sick Society ; and it fell to my own lot to attend there seventy-two cases of typhus, besides numerous cases of scarlet fever, many of them of a very malignant type.

Was the visitation of the cholera very severe in that neighborhood? - Yes; the cholera first appeared there. I believe I had the first case, of which we had any knowledge, as having occurred in the metropolis. Disease then spread over that side of the river, including Limehousc, and the opposite side, Rotherhithe and Bermondsey.

Do you know the sanitary condition of the population on the opposite side of the river? - Yes, it is very bad; the land lying low, being very ill-drained, and abounding with foul ditches.

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