Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State For the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry Into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain; With AppendicesChadwick, Edwin
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Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State For the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry Into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain; With Appendices
Chadwick, Edwin
Housing -- Great Britain; Public health -- Great Britain
Cellar in York-street, In a dwelling-house, Stove-street,
Chorlton-upon-Medlock; a man—a one sitting-room, one kitchen and
hand-loom weaver—his wife and two bed-rooms, rent 4_s._ per week.
family (one daughter married, with A poor widow, with a daughter also
her husband forms part of the a widow, with ten children, making
family), comprising altogether together 13 in family; 1_l._ 6_s._
seven persons; income 2_l._ 7_s._, per week, averaging 2_s._ per head
or 6_s._ 8½_d._ per head; rent per week. Here there is every
2_s._ Here, with the largest amount appearance of cleanliness and
of income, the family occupy two comfort.
filthy, damp, unwholesome cellars,
one of which is a back place
without pavement or flooring of any
kind, occupied by the loom of the
family, and used as a sleeping-room
for the married couple and single
daughter.
3. 3.
John Salt, of Carr Bank (labourer), George Hall, of Carr Bank
wages 12_s._ per week; a wife, and (labourer), wages 10_s._ per week;
one child aged 15: he is a drunken, has reared ten children; he is in
disorderly fellow, and very much in comfortable circumstances.
debt.
4. 4.
William Haynes, of Oakamoore John Hammonds, of Woodhead
(wire-drawer), wages 1_l._ per (collier), wages 18_s._ per week;
week; he has a wife and five has six children to support; he is
children; he is in debt, and his a steady man and saving money.
family is shamefully neglected.
5. 5.
George Locket, of Kingsley George Mosley, of Kingsley
(boatman), wages 18_s._ per week, (collier), wages 18_s._ per week;
with a wife and seven children; his he has a wife and seven children;
family are in a miserable he is saving money.
condition.
6. 6.
John Banks, of Cheadle (collier), William Faulkner, of Tean
wages 18_s._ per week; wife and (tape-weaver), wages 18_s._ per
three children; his house is in a week; supports his wife and seven
filthy state, and the furniture not children without assistance.
worth 10_s._
7. 7.
William Weaver, of Kingsley Charles Rushton, of
(boatman), wages 18_s._ per week; Lightwoodfields, wages 14_s._ per
wife and three children; he is a week; he supports his wife and five
drunken, disorderly fellow, and his children in credit.
family entirely destitute.
8. 8.
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