Letter to the Rt. Hon. Sir George Grey, BT., M.P., Her Majesty's secretary of state for the Home Department, from Charles Purton Cooper, Esq. with papers respecting the sanitary state of part of the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, London.

  • Cooper, Charles Purton, 1793-1873.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Letter to the Rt. Hon. Sir George Grey, BT., M.P., Her Majesty's secretary of state for the Home Department, from Charles Purton Cooper, Esq. with papers respecting the sanitary state of part of the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    deare sellars. Sur, we hope you will let us have our cumplaints put into your hinfluenshall paper, and make these landlords of our houses and these comishioners (the freinds we spose of the landlords) make our houses decent for Christions to live in. Preaye Sir com and see us, for we are livin like piggs, and it aint faire we shoulde be so ill treted. We are your respeckfull servents in Church Lane, Carrier St., and the other corts. Teusday, Juley 3, 1849. XIII. A pamphlet consisting of the foregoing Papers was pub- lished in August last:—Papers respecting the Sanitary State of Church Lane and Carrier Street, in the Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, London. Edited hy Charles Purton Cooper, Esq. James Newman, Bookseller and Publisher, 235, High Holborn. . There was prefixed to such pamphlet the following notice :—• It appears to the Editor that the task which he has undertaken will be best performed by a short statement of the circumstances under which the first of the ensuing [foregoing] Papers—Mr. Durham’s Letter of yesterday— [I3th August, 1850—Paper No. I.] came to be ad- dressed to him. Writing in the middle of the nine- teenth century, and in the capital of the United Kingdom, he cannot think it necessary to introduce the Papers to the notice of the reader by any remarks upon their contents. On the 9th July, 1849, there appeared in the Times newspaper an article headed Our Sanitary Remon- strants” (Paper No. XL above). The letter mentioned in this article had appeared on the 5th July, and was headed “A Sanitary Remonstrance” (Paper No. XII. above). The impression produced upon the Editor’s