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the Said store and the rear of six houses in Grey Eagle-street, numbered 23, 25, 27,
29, 31 and 33; on the north by the rear of the houses on the south side of Quakerstreet
and extending from Grey Eagle-street to Wheeler-street; and on the west by
the rear of a public-house in Wheeler-street, called "The Ship," and by Wheelerstreet
to include the houses numbered 22, 23, and 23½ in that street; from thence
eastward along Great Pearl-street by the side of the Cocoa Manufactory there; and
from thence south along the rear of the said Royal Cambridge Music Hall in
Commercial-street to the starting point; and which area is more particularly
delineated on the plan hereto annexed and coloured red.
This area is about 8650 square yards, and contains a population of about 1050;
which gives about 8 square yards to each person.
The annual rate of mortality in this area is exceedingly high, being on an
average of the last three years 33.8 per 1000; while that for the whole District of
Whitechapel during the same period has been 26.4 per 1000.
In my opinion, as at present informed, the Area No. II. mentioned in the said
communication, or complaint, is not an unhealthy area for the purposes of the
said Act.
I am, Gentlemen,
Tour obedient Servant,
JOHN LIDDLE.
15 Great Alie Street,
20th July, 1877.
In confirmation of the unhealthiness of the above-mentioned area I
append the following letter from Dr. Swyer, one of the Medical Officers
of the Whitechapel Union:
32, Brick Lane, Spitalfields,
16th July, 1877.
Dear Sir,
I think I can assert most positively, that diseases of a low type,
and especially scrofula and mesenteric disease, amongst children prevail, and
always have prevailed, to a larger extent than in any other part of my Medical
District in the locality you have mentioned, viz.:—Great and Little Pearl-street,
New-court, Wilk-court and Diamond-court, Great Pearl-street »nd Crown-court,
Vine-yard, and Vine-court, Little Pearl-street.
I am, Dear Sir,
Yours very truly,
SEP. SWTEE.
J. Liddle, Esq.
Inspector's Department.
Mr. Battrah reported to the Board that he had seized about six hundred
rotten eggs which were exposed for sale. The owner of the eggs was summoned
before the Magistrate, who ordered them to be destroyed, and
inflicted a fine of £10 and 2s. costs, or one month's imprisonment.