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"At all events, it is evident that the condition of the Parish,
described as 'worse than it has ever been before,' does not relate to
its sanitary condition, which, through the incessant labours of the
Vestry, has continued to improve in spite of the increase of an
unsanitary population."
To which Sir Charles Dilke replied as follows :—
Royal Commission on the Housing of the Working Classes,
8, Richmond Terrace, Whitehall,
24th March, 1884.
Sir.
The Royal Commission have had before them evidence as
regards Clerkenwell from two of the clergymen of the parish, from
Lord William Compton, from Mr. Boodle, and from four School Board
visitors. They are to have before them to-morrow, two members of
the Vestry, including the chairman of tho Sanitary Committee. It is
not open to me to state the effect of the Clerkenwell evidence. It is
my individual opinion, as expressed by me in the House of Commons,
that the parish is deteriorating. Having visited the whole of the 32
districts of the metropolis, 1 consider, I am sorry to say, that tho evils
to which I pointed are greater in Clerkenwell than in any of the
others. It is, undoubtedly, true that the parish is a healthy one.
I am, Sir, Yours faithfully,
CHARLES W. DILKE.
The matter was at this stage at Lady-day.
Regulations under Sanitary Act, 1866.—At the end
of the year 1883, a communication was received from the
Local Government Board, that they had put in force
Section 35 of the Sanitary Act, 1866 and Section 47 of the
Sanitary Law Amendment Act, 1874, the effect being that
the Vestry is empowered to make regulations, subject to
the confirmation of the Local Government Hoard, with
respect to houses let in lodgings or occupied by members
of more than one family, with respect to the following
matters:—
1. For fixing the number of persons who may occupy
a house or part of a house which is let in
lodgings or occupied by members of more than
one family.