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REPORT of Mr. D. Cubitt Nichols to the Home Secretary, of
his Enquiry into the Sanitary condition of the Parish of
Clerkenwell.
3, Howard Street, Strand,
27th February, 1886.
3 Sir,
THE PARISH OF ST. JAMES AND ST. JOHN,
CLERKENWELL.
In pursuance of your instructions that an inquiry should be made
is to the immediate sanitary requirements of the Parish of Clerkenwell,
in accordance with the recommendation of the Royal Commission
m the Housing of the Working Classes, and that I should hold such
nquiry, I have the honour to report that I placed myself in communication
with the Vestry Clerk, and also with Mr. Robson and Mr.
Goode, the gentlemen nominated by the Vestry to co-operate with me
in such inquiry; and gave notice to the Vestry Clerk and to the
Mansion House Council on the dwellings of the people, that I should
proceed with such inquiry at the Vestry Hall, Clerkenwell, on the
28th October, 1885.
In pursuance of the above notice, I attended at the place named,
and proceeded with the inquiry, Mr. Robson and Mr. Goode being
present.
Mr. Robert Paget, the Vestry Clerk, and Mr. J. W. Griffith, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health, appeared on behalf of the Vestry of
Clerkenwell.
Mr. E. Lewis Thomas, Barrister, Executive Officer to the Council ;
Mr. Parkes, M.D., Medical Adviser to the Council, and Mr. Conder,
Member of the Council, appeared on behalf of the Mansion House
Council on the Dwellings of the People.
At this Meeting it was arranged that an inspection should be made
of the alleged sanitary defects in the houses referred to in a list which
has been forwarded by the Mansion House Council to the Local
Government Board, and that after such inspection a public inquiry
should be held for the purpose of taking evidence.
I then proceeded to inspect the houses, referred to in the abovementioned
list, being accompanied by Mr. Robson and Mr. Goode ;
Dr. Griffith, the Medical Officer of Health, and the Sanitary Inspector
on behalf of the Vestry; and by Dr. Parkes, on behalf of the Mansion
House Council.
During the inspection an amended and enlarged list of houses was
put in by the Mansion House Council ("A" herewith).