[Report 1856-1857].

  • Bermondsey (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
Date:
1857
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Credit: [Report 1856-1857]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mr. Bartlett, of 14, Paulin street, aged four years, died after a few days illness; the mother states that none of her children have been well since she removed from Alfred street, about 12 months ago. Her little boy went to a child's school, at No. 2, Paulin street, which joins the manure factory, many of the children have had fever, the governess stating that she could not open the window in consequence of the suffocating vapour which arose from the adjoining yard. The closet at No. 14, is properly panned, trapped, and supplied with a water cistern, but Mrs. Bartlett complains of the very inefficient supply of water. George White of 76 Princes road, also of fever. In this house the privy is open, and there is connection with the sewer but there is no pan, trap, or water supply, and at times the inhabitants complain of a very offensive smell. These cases tend to strengthen the opinion I entertain of the preventibility of fever. At No. 2, Ferguson's Rents in Snows Fields, I have lately attended a case of fever, a woman —about thirty years, the mother of six young children, who all at various times in this house have also had fever, she is an industrious, cleanly, and respectable old person; now the court is admirably paved and well drained, but on examining the back premises, I was sickened with a most abominable stench arising from the privy. I to be aggravated by the heat from a copper in the adjoining house, which belonging to a laundress is always heated, keeping the contents of both privies at a temperature peculiarly favorable for the developement of noxious effluvia. I have consulted with Mr. Barrow, on the most practicable means to be adopted for the removal of any cause of complaint against him for creating a nuisance, and I hope that the evil will be remedied. He has promised to do all in his power to accomplish this desirable object. I believe that the alterations which, with your Surveyor, I have witnessed in the various slaughter-houses, will be conducive to the health of the district. There has been on the part of those interested, a commendable prompitude and correctness in carrying out the improvements required by the Vestry. 24