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Much satisfaction has been expressed by many of the poor in various parts of
the district by the new and additional privy accommodation which has been erected
for their use, and for the New Sewer which has been constructed in Shepherd Street,
Tenter Ground, Spitalfields, where nearly the whole of the houses had cesspools,
but since the sewer has been constructed, the cesspools have been abolished, and
every house is now properly drained.
It is my painful duty again to record the fact that many of the syphoned-trapped
pans, &c., which have been attached to the privies by order of your Inspectors, have
not answered the purpose for which they were intended, inasmuch as they have become
broken by the ignorant and violent endeavours to clear them from the portions
of jackets, old shoes, and other worn-out articles of dress, which have been thrown
down them, and it becomes a matter well worthy the consideration of the Board,
whether some better contrivance can be substituted for the pans and traps now in
use, to relieve the inhabitants from the effluvia of privies, until education shall have
made more progress among the people.
I am,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
15, Great Alie Street,
8th February, 1858.
JOHN
LIDDLE.