North Street and some of the houses at the back. Lord Ashley saw the landlord of some of them. Waterloo Town (several All undrained, but part of Manchester streets). Street and Albion Street. Many variations of level of several feet at a distance of a few yards only, as Manchester Place, Derbyshire Street, Sale Street. Many of the houses back to back and consisting of five ground-floor rooms only. Second Visit. George Street. Old Bethnal Green Road. Clare Street, Felix Street, Centre Street, Cambridge Circus, Minerva Street, Matilda Street, Hope Street, Temple Street, Charles Street, Char lotte Street, Durham Street. A centre gutter full of stagnant water. Has had a sewer made recently, but houses do not communicate with it. All built on undrained ground, and the houses affected with damp. Court opposite to Cam- One privy to several houses, and mosses bridge Road. growing on the damp brick of the houses to the height of 4 or 5 feet from the ground. Several feet below the road in many parts, the drainage of which it receives. (Here lived the burkers of the Italian boy.) Undrained, having stagnant water in them. Most wretched hovels. (Where the child was burnt.) Satchwell Rents. Mount Street. The privies form part of the groundfloor of these houses. Lord Ashley inspected the first house; no yards. Level of the houses very uneven; many below the level of the road. The undrained portion of this street suffered from fever to an awful extent, while the high and drained part had scarcely a case. Courts out of Mount Dung-heap in one. Street. Collingwood Street. Lord Ashley saw the landlord of another and spoke to him. Houses on one side much lower than on the other; very badly drained, and not a healthy-looking person or child in the street. APPENDIX II. RECOGNITION OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF DR SOUTHWOOD SMITH. At a Meeting held at the residence of the Earl of Shaftesbury on the 7th of May 1856 IT WAS RESOLVED That this Meeting, deeply impressed with the untiring and successful labours of Dr Southwood Smith in the cause of social amelioration, and specially recognising the value of these labours in the great cause of SANITARY IMPROVEMENT, are anxious to tender him some mark of their personal esteem. That accordingly a bust of Dr Southwood Smith be executed in marble, and presented to some suitable institution, as an enduring memorial of his eminent services in the promotion of the Public Health. Viscount The following is a List of the Subscribers : Palmerston, K.G., G.C.B., First Lord of the The Earl of Carlisle, K. G., Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The Earl of Harrowby, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The Honourable A. Kinnaird, Sir Edward Borough, Bart. Sir John Easthope, Bart. The Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir Samuel Morton Peto, Bart. K.G. The Marquis of Normanby, The Right Honourable W. F. Sir John Ramsden, Bart. B. G. Babington, Esq., M.D. | Joseph Bateman, Esq., LL.D. G. Beaman, Esq., M.D. The Rev. J. Cumming, D.D. William Farr, Esq., M.D. F. D. Goldsmid, Esq. R. D. Grainger, Esq., F.R.S. The Lord Claude Hamilton, Samuel Gurney, Esq. M.P. The Lord Stanley of Bicker staffe, M.P. J. F. Hart, Esq. A. Hassall, Esq., M.D. James Heywood, Esq., M.P. Rowland Hill, Esq. F. Hill, Esq. A. Hill, Esq. E. Hill, Esq. Gurney Hoare, Esq. T. Jones Howell, Esq. The Rev. Charles Hume, M.A. R. W. Kennard, Esq. Duncan M'Laren, Esq. J. Leslie, Esq. Gavin Milroy, Esq., M.D. S. S. Scriven, Esq. R. A. Slaney, Esq., M.P. J. J. Smith Esq. James Startin, Esq. John Sutherland, Esq., M.D. Waller Lewis, Esq., M.B., Thomas Thornely, Esq., M.P. 1 It will be seen that a very large number of the names on this list are those of men who had personally worked with my grandfather or had watched and helped as labourers in the Sanitary cause from the beginning.-G. L. |