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3. In all classes of houses the dust-heaps are dangerously
neglected, by the fault of the inhabitants in nine
cases out of ten.
4. We notice, with regret, a kind of apathy and
indisposition to help themselves on the part of the poor.
In the case of an accumulation of stinking water at No.
30, Thomas Street, not one would take the trouble to
remove the nuisance, or even to complain of it.
Nothing, however, is to be despaired of. , Continued
exertion will tell in time. Meanwhile, any nobleman or
moneyed person, who would invest a few hundreds in poor
men's houses, and put them into the hands of an agent
who would follow our instructions, would not only reap
interest from the capital invested, but do infinitely more
good than if he gave the same sum as a free gift to an
hospital.*
III. "We will now give such of the details of various
cases brought before us as deserve notice.
Unwholesome Bread. On the 3rd August, the Resident
Medical Officer at the Dispensary, No. 48, Mount
Street, called on Dr. Druitt, bringing with him a specimen
of bread, by eating which, as he believed, a family
named Aylett, at No. 7, Little Grosvenor Street, had
been made ill. On investigating the case, it was found
that Mrs. Aylett and two children were ill; that their
illness was likely to be caused or aggravated by bad
bread; and that the bread in question was as bad as
possible—very dark and moist, and not merely sour but
*The society for improving the dwellings of the labouring classes has
just opened its new houses, Nos. 21 and 22, Grosvenor Market, and
would furnish the means of managing the property which any benevolent
person, might get possession of.