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Show 266 A lll'ENDIX TO NOTES. 'l'hnt pnrtion of St. Gili"B' trnxcrsc:cl h.y 1\~w ?x::t~~-s~~~c~i(J~~~ t\~~~ A.lmom·.~·· now cxtin,:;uishcd ':{t~r 11~1~~~;.~t~~~~~-c '.Uut f1)r all th:1.t,' t!J('Y of the vdc~t ha~nt~ Ill our 1:; ' . 11 ,f human hein,..,s, who were w0rc then mhalutt'ti hy sc~·er,ll thou~.m~s (_ Ucin•~ g:ivcn t~ their future l:('lll(!I'RClcs!;]y turned out Without 1~ thOI~,....ht nust oand where were the t.1tc Lndue 14omcwhc•·o they of ncccS!lJty 1 1' · r• (rr Y to;,, cxcv{;t it) places alrc;aly oceupieJ by t IO~C Ill a lAC con • JOn with thcmsciY<':"' ~ It w:ls p~i.ntod out :tt ~~,?eSt~~~,~~ tl~~fic~t J:~~~si~- qucncc of prontlmg: no f:ubsltluto for tho .'"': ~I U .. l tho cuu1-.o;0 of the alterations, othc1' haunts _of \\JOlt JC ness ,,ou\d lJcnccfoJ·th he doubly crowded, nnd that, wlidc thr. t<l~opkccpcr~ of Oxford-~trcct, unci tho dwellers ncar the J[ouse~ of Parltamel~t, m~ght with l'Oa'lon congratula.to themseh·?s on the r~mo.vnl fr~m .th?u' netghl)( JudwoJ of amass of dirt and cmnc, the C\d "oulJ mf<dhbly. show itticlf in an nf!;grn,,atcd form in somo oth?r quartet'S, And so 1t ha.s ..:omc to pa!!~; thenl·cforth common Iodg/~1g-houscs haYO bc?Omc the most v:1luablo description of property. ~he floor of a roon~ 1s let out :tt 80 much a foot-it might almo~t be satd a.t S? much au tud~; and where, some yenrs ago, fort.Y or fifty people mtght he found 111 one ll!wtll dwellin" se,·cntv or c1ghty nrc now congrC'ga.tcJ. .~And mJw 'timt the 'c,·il i.'l laiJ barC\ arc auy steps being taken to remedy it? None, ot· next to none, it woulll SQc.m. Acourc;e of fining and imprisoniug may iodeed cou:pol the loJg,n::;-ho~u.;ekyopC'rs of a 1):lrticul:u· quarter to clc~n out thett' houses, :1.nd :-tdmtt no more th:1.n a certain numiJC'r nt a tune, but what lta~ Lcc~l don~ to l~ousc tlJO people di~placct!? 'J':tkc the cnsc CJf. n h~u:;o m whtch, pnor 1~ tho ' 'isits of tho in~pccting sergr:wt ?f po.!tcc, ctgl~ty wrl'tchcs w~re pil~d, and suppo!o~C that, thanks ~o nugJt;t~· nal flC\'Cnty nnd a;t :h:li\'C puhcc bupcn 1:sion, tho n~m.bcr IS hcl,l~cfort h r.cdu?ed to .t~"t/·, what has lJecomo of tho romam111~ fifty? I_ he quo~twn tS not dtlii.Lu t to answer. Lodge tii('Y nntst 80J~wwhcru. It a\~pears by the r~port::~ thnt, according . to tho calcul:lh?ns of the po JCf', a\.Jo.ut half the h?~~C's oul.v, sulucct to tho opcr;\t:on of the act, h:n·c IHthe.rto been nsttcd .. 1\'o m11.y feel quite r,~tt'e that tho'ic who hare hce~1 dt:ipb.eml from th_e1r old quarters in the IIISJH'Ct('J half, h:n·? been dnvcn to ftntl hhcltn m that portion which the 'isits of the pollee han~ not yet reached. I t may be fully cxpC'cted th:1t if' the authoritic.'l Cf1nlinuc these rPports penodically, tho 0\il, thongh r~ppnrcntly nnrro":ed in area, will increase in intC'n ~;;ity. lu a cla ~H of lJO U ~es -..dJCI'O c1ghty J)l'Oplo m:1y now be Rtowed, it must not !'urprise us if we read of a huwlrul or so on some future ocea~ion. llut C\'Cll let it !JO ~upposed, fo1· tlw snko of argument, thnt crcry common lod!!;in~-housc h~ts liccn ri:oitcd nnd set in onler and its inm1.t e~ rci!uccd to the l o~n l numbct·, :;.nd that n str011g stall' ~f 1H1lieo take::; care that tbo l:tw is 110t ngain infringeJ. It is t>aid that the hou~e:J alreruly impcc;l(•d amount to onc-h:1lfofthe tot~l Jlumbor of those in cxi:;tcncc in London, and tba.t they form the hnbttation of fifty lhous:wd person.:~. So that it may be assm~1cd. the~e nrc in London one hundred thom;nud pcrsous or so who hro m tlus :t'l.f~·ast1~~~~-~~~j}0 o~0t:~;e \'~~;n\~~0r 1~:~~;1 ~\~~~~~)J~1~~~~:.:\7n~\0 c~~c~0 tf~~e,~~~~:; would be prollably too crowded. 1\cverthcle::::;, suppo:so one hnlf aro ArrENDIX TO NOTES . 2.67 ~llowed to remain, n~~~ then wheY't'! :l.ro tho other h:-Llf to go to. 'Vha.t IS to bCC(lmo. of tho fifty thou.'lflllcl men, women, and childJ•rn turnccl out lo sleep .m tho .streets? l 1hvc our le~iBin.tors ever gin:n this view of tho qucstwn ~ f;l~1~1o thoug.1t? 'I' he facti~, we nrc all of us apt to ~c ~n.roloss :lnd tndillcrcn4 cxc.cpt_to whnt immediately afl'ucts ll'i; anc[ 1t 1~ only when. ~he mutter 1.s forc.ed on our notiuc, thnt we tt·y to :cnlizc the comhtJ;m o~ those .m a dllfcrcnt Aphrrr. J t jg not merely 111 London. thnt th1s blmd R:Jillt:lry zeal has manifested itself. Somo yc~rs :t~o 1t w:L!I found that thCl'C we1·c numbers of people in Liverpool li~mg Ill damp, clo~c, unwholc.somc. ccl\ars; t!Jo Corporation Ut:trrm~ ncd to. make f1: ~lcn.n sweep, 8, J)nmto Act of Parliament wns obt: tmcd w1thout c.hfiJculty, and tho ccllnrs were cleared, but thcit· occupn1~t.s hat! no whc1:c to go to .. J. .... ~i~httion had not .done anything for thou a?c~ml~lOd~tl~m, :uHl fnghttul scenes of mtsery were tho result of tins tlHiz~crtmuwttng reform. •:'l'ho rc.mcdy, .in~ccd, is ~it~1plo enough. To turn people out of thc~r dwcl.lmgs wtthout provtdmg places for them to go to, is manifc~ tly Lcgmnmg ~t the wrong Cl~d. Sanitary reform is an excellent tlnng, U~zt W!J~t rz.?ht have tho rzch to thro:v its weight exclusively on the poo1? lhc llch man gets compensatiOn when turned out of his dwelling, not so. tho poor va.~rant. So f;Jr ns street improvements nrc concerned, nothmg can be snnpler than the course which sboulU invnriably ~c adopted. Dwellings for the poot· as well us for the rich should m every case be erected on n. port10u of the ground clcnJ·cd fur the improvcmc.nts, i.n numbers Sl~Oicient to nccommo<.lato properly tho IJ?Orcr population d1sp!aced .. It IS no pa.rticul:~r incom·cnicnce to tho l'!Ch mnn who keeps h1s ca.rnag<", or even to h nn who e:1.n affOrd his tl!reel)encc for :~;n omnibus, if he is oLl~ged to live a I ittlo further from Jusy :1CC o~bu~lllC,<;;s; \.Jut n larg:<" portion of the poor arc ofnccc,<;;sity o.bhgcd to hve 111 the centre of tho mctropo!if;, and some accommodatiOn ought to be provided fot· tltem. Nor hare tltc richer inhabitants of the neighbourhood an~ reason to. fear,, if,. when a rookery is clcnred out, proper nct·onunoJatwn be prm 1Jcd m 1ts stead, the u pcrrowth of n. new St. Gilcs:s or n_ncw .Almonry. Tho dwollin~.'l fOrth~ humbler classes erected lll s.t. :J?:mcra~-nut a particu!n.rly healthy situntionhavc ~~roved that tt ~:-~. po~s1hl<", :11Hl not vc1·y t!iHi:cult, to kocp tho m~rta 1ty ~)f poor fimul:es m. Londo~ below that vf the nYcrage morta! tty of J<.ngbml. It IS f]llllo possJ!Jlc to make London n healthy place for all of us_; nnd aiLhough: unfortuna tely, mom! imp1·ovcmcnt docs .not ncc~~li:lrlly kef'{! paco wtth. physienl comfort~, ouo thing i~ e~rtnm, that If n.ny set of human bcmgs he lodged and trcntod mate~ rwlly as beast;~, OL' woJ·se than bcnst)':, thcit· moral and intollechwt n:\tures will soon undergo an analogous dcgr:uJ.::t.tion." l~'rom tltc London .Morning Ifcrald of ltfarch 30, 1853. (2) "CoNDITION oF TuE P ooR I:>.' J ... oNDO:\', . 11 Not Yery f.tr f:om tho spot whe1·c we write, within no YCI'Y J:!:•·e:lt dtstance of the ros1denccs of m:tny of our aristoCJ'acy, lies one of those dark nnd g:loomy 'com·:::~' which :dl OYer London arc thronged by tho poor. It •~ not, we bcltorc, worse til au hundreds of others, but it ha.s |