| Mr. HADLOW, Surgeon to the Aldgate District of the East London Union. | Having been elected in July, 1849, is unable to give any table of comparison. | A marked change for the better has been effected in the physical condition of infected neighbourhoods ; viz. improved drainage, better supply of water, partial but beneficial attention to lime-washing and cleansing of dwelling-houses. | Seven-step alley : fatal to all children; house-cleansing requires to be enforced; overcrowding to be abated; dust bins to be erected.Harrow alley: filthy, overcrowded, unfit for human habitation. Offal from slaughterhouses, and filth from cattle-sheds, together with want of cleanliness of its inhabitants, render it an absolute focus for contagious diseases.Gun yard: dung-heaps and condition of houses.Princes street: fearfully overcrowded and foul; defective supply of water. |
| Mr. LLOYD, Surgeon to the Cripplegate District of the East London Union. | Considerably under the average, both as regards the numbers attacked, and the proportion of deaths. | Principally to the sanitary improvements effected in and around the dwellings of the poor; to the better supply of water; to the increased employment of the labourers ; to food being cheaper ; and to the in- creased facilities offered by the recent regulations of the New Fever Hospital, for the admission of cases not only of confirmed fever, but of doubtful ones. | Fountain-and-Still court:— two small houses so badly constructed for light and ventilation, that they should be shut up altogether. |
| Dr. LOBB, Surgeon to the Aldersgate District of the East London Union, and to the Male Workhouse. | A manifest improvement. | There has been a considerable diminution in those diseases likely to be benefitted by the adoption of efficient sani-tary measures, which have been adopted in my district. I fear, however, that as the alarm from the late fearful epidemic subsides, so will the dirty inhabitants of still dirtier localities relapse into their former habits ; thus I would strongly urge a periodical survey being made, and a report forwarded to the proper authorities. | Bridgewater place : insufficiently drained,Saddler's buildings : privies in immediate conjunction with the dwelling-rooms, and from want of a sufficient supply of water, they become choked, and are consequently most disgusting and injurious. |
| Mr. BULLIN, Surgeon to the Workhouse of the West London Union. | Has no district under his charge; but is aware of improved health in the neighbourhood of his residence (Farring-don street). | Sanitary works improving the physical condition of the poorer classes. | All the neighbouring courts and alleys demand alteration and improvement. |
| Mr. HUTCHINSON, Surgeon to the North District of the West London Union. | Cases below average and not unusually fatal. Health of the people generally better than usual. | Independently of atmospheric influence, in some measure to the greater cleanliness enforced in the courts and alleys; to improved and extended sewerage, to the better supply of water, to a less crowded state of the poor population, and to the greater facility of obtaining food, in consequence of the cheapness of provisions. | Three-diamond court; Fox-and-knot court; John's court; Black-bear alley; extreme defects of every sort in light, air, and water; excessive overcrowding, filth, and (in the first case) disordered drainage. |
