London in the Reign of Victoria (1837-1897)Blackie & Son, 1898 - 248 páginas |
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Página 61 - ... to the health. But as it approaches the metropolis it becomes loaded with a quantity of filth, which renders it disgusting to the senses, and improper to be employed in the preparation of food.
Página 243 - Times,' writing on the subject of 2Oth March 1855, used these words :"We may really say that there is no such place as London at all, the huge city passing under this title being rent into an infinity of divisions, districts, and areas. . . . Within the metropolitan limits the local administration is carried on by no fewer than 300 different bodies, deriving powers from about 250 different local Acts, independent of general Acts. The number of Commissioners employed, though not precisely ascertainable,...
Página 218 - at that great hole ; the landlord will not mend it. I have every night to sit up and watch, or my husband sits up to watch, because that hole is over a common sewer, and the rats come up, sometimes twenty at a time, and if we did not watch for them they would eat the baby up.
Página 140 - He was to be met rapidly skirting the grim brick wall of the prison in Coldbath Fields, or trudging along the Seven Sisters Road at Holloway, or bearing, under a steady press of sail, underneath Highgate Archway, or pursuing the even tenor of his way up the Vauxhall Bridge Road.
Página 216 - What a pity it is that the thermometer fell ten degrees yesterday. Parliament was all but compelled to legislate upon the great London nuisance by the force of sheer stench. The intense heat had driven our legislators from those portions of their buildings which overlook the river. A few Members, indeed, bent upon investigating the subject to its very depth, ventured into the library, but they were instantaneously driven to retreat, each man with a handkerchief to his nose. We are heartily glad of...
Página 104 - Church, and wishing to provide a suitable remedy in this behalf, of our special grace and from our certain knowledge and mere motion we...
Página 63 - The legislature now says to the builder, plan your houses with as few openings as possible, let every house be ill ventilated by shutting out the light and air, and as a reward for your ingenuity you shall be subject to a less amount of taxation than your neighbours.
Página 58 - ... we are of opinion, that the present state of the supply of water to the metropolis is susceptible of, and requires, improvement ; that many of the complaints respecting the quality of the water are well founded; and that it ought to be derived from other sources than those now resorted to, and guarded by such restrictions as shall at all times ensure its cleanliness and purity.
Página 217 - I have described to you; it was very narrow, the only necessary accommodation being at the end; in the first house that I turned into there was a single room, the window was very small, and the light came through the door. I saw a young woman there, and I asked her if she had been there some little time. "Yes," she said, "her husband went out to work, and was obliged to come there to be near his work." She said, "I am miserable!" "What is it?" I asked. "Look there," said she, "at that great hole;...
Página 217 - In those alleys lived 200 to 300 people, and there was but one accommodation for the whole of that number, and that at the end ; and I do not hesitate to say that it was so tremendously horrible that one could not even approach that end.