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"It" bad drainage "was a defect
from which they, the East districts,
suffered in common with the City"
and the seven other districts, mentioned
by Mr. Radcliffe.— Vide his
Report.
time— for all seasons to generate
and evolve such gases and deadly
vapours, in which pestilence of all
kinds delights to revel. Fever has
always found a field in its season
here, and as to Cholera, has not
Mr. Radcliffe himself in his map
aflixed seven and thirty black spots
to slew that for havoc during this
plague, there was nothing to come
near, nothing to equal, this part of
Limehovse Fields? The sewer then
pusses on into Limehouse again,
then into Poplar, till it gets to the
Lea Cut, near a bridge,* where
another syphon affords a passage,
another check to the stream takes
place, and arises another deposit of
sewage mud; it then comes round
through Poplar, and finally, after
receiving the filth of 100 to 150,000
inhabitants, and after a journey of
3 miles, besides taking in the contributions
on the way of smaller
sewers, forming at least a dozen
miles, it finally comes a second
time into the Limehouse District,
and disgorges its contents into the
Limekiln Dock.
2. The Ratcliff Highway sewer
receives the sewage of another part
of Whitechapel, the principal part
of St. George's, part of Shadwell,
and the greater part of ltatcliff,
from a constituency of not less than
* Appropriately and parochially known by the name of " Stinkhousc."