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ter breakfast than the miserable tea and bread-and-butter.
All mistresses complain that the forenoons are wasted in
yawning, and languor, and idle talk. A good bath, followed
by a good breakfast and a little run in the open air,
would put a stop to this. 5. They should be encouraged
to buy fruit when in season, oranges, salad, &c., &c.
6. More than 12 hours' work a day is but a pretence;
they may sit and seem to work, but do not.
We believe that if the most eminent firms, who show
great intelligence and humanity in all that regards the welfare
of their households, could be induced by some persons of
influence to initiate some such reforms, that the whole trade
would be benefitted. Work would be better done, the health
of the young persons engaged in it be improved, and a reproach
taken off our countrywomen, as regards their treatment
of helpless members of their own sex. Whilst saying
this we add, that there would not be much ground of complaint,
if these establishments were as well conducted elsewhere
as they are in our Parish.
SPECIAL CASES.
Dr. Aldis summoned a Special Meeting of the Nuisances
Removal Committee, on Aug. 1, 1863, to authorize a summons
to be taken out against the owner of a house in
Sutherland Street, Pimlico, who, after receiving a notice,
had refused to remedy a nuisance, which had caused the
occupier, an aged and poor woman, to suffer from severe
diarrhoea. In consequence of her sufferings, and the house
being filled with lodgers, it became necessary that the effluvia
should be abated forthwith. The defendant appeared at the
Westminster Police Court, on Aug. 5, when he pleaded
guilty and consented to do the work within 48 hours.