Sketches in London / By James Grant. With twenty-four humorous illustrations by "Phiz", and others.

  • James Grant
Date:
1840
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sketches in London / By James Grant. With twenty-four humorous illustrations by "Phiz", and others. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER VI. THE POLICE OFFICES. PAGE Their Number and Names—Remarks on Bow Street Office—The Thames Police Office—The Magistrates—Number of cases daily brought before them— Yearly Expenses of the Police Offices—Their Expenses Forty Years ago—The Station Houses—Anecdote of a Prisoner—Scenes to be witnessed in the Sta- tion Houses—Exhibitions of Human Nature to be witnessed in the Police Offices—Specimens given—North Country Simplicity—The Poetical Cobbler —A Drunken Frolic—Case of alleged Horse-Stealing . . . .193 CHAPTER VII. WORKHOUSES. Inmates of Workhouses—The Republican Character of the Communities in Workhouses—Difficulty of obtaining accurate Statistics regarding them— Marylebone Workhouse—Its Size and Statistics—Statements and Calculations as to Metropolitan Workhouses generally—Farming out Paupers—The Horror generally entertained of the Workhouse—Description of a particular case, illustrative of the fact—The Romantic Incidents in the life of many inmates The New Poor-Law^ Bill—Its Harshness and Injustice to the poor—Con- cluding observations 225 CHAPTER VIII. LUNATIC ASYLUMS. Difficulty of obtaining accurate Information'on the subject of the Lunatic Asylums in London—Private Madhouses—Their Number, and the Number, &c., of their inmates—Public Lunatic Asylums—St. Luke’s—Bethlem—Hanwell Asylum—Insanity on one particular point, while on all other points the party is quite rational—Sanity on one point, while on all others the parties are insane —Diversified ways in which Insanity manifests itself—Partiality of particular lunatics to particular employments—Instances given—Cunning of some lu- natics—Their great Physical Energies—Harsh Treatment they sometimes receive—General Remarks . . 257 CHAPTER IX. BARTHOLOMEW AND GREENWICH FAIRS. Prefatory Remarks—Bartholomew Fair—The Numbers which attend it—De- scriptive Observations—Greenwich Fair—The Numbers which frequent it—* The Voyage downward—Throwing the Stick, and other Games—The Park—1 The Hill—Blackheatli—The Appearance of the Fair—Supply of Commodities —Exhibitions—Theatres—Gamblers and Gaming—Swings—Booths—Im- moral Tendency of the Fair 2S9
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