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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    who is a cutler in New Oxford Street, the Editor recol- lected that the spot on which he then stood was not far distant from Church Lane and Carrier Street, and some observation fell from him with respect to the state of the houses there situate in the summer of last year. Mr. Durham was silent; but opening a drawer he placed in the Editor’s hands a small packet of letters received by him from the General Board of Health, the Sewers OfHce, and the Home Office. They are printed post, pages * * * [ante, pages 11-16, Papers Nos. II.—X.] and require no explanation here. On getting home, the Editor lost no time in searching tor the proofs of the Times Article and the Times Letter of July, 1849, and on the following day gave them to Mr. Durham, with a request which pro- duced his letter of yesterday [13 August, 1850.—Paper No. L] It is apprehended that more need not be said in this place. XIV. The General Board of Health, Gwydyr House, Whitehall, 12 September, 1850. Sir, I AM directed by the General Board of Health to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th instant, with reference to the state of Church Lane and Carrier Street, St. Giles ; and in reply I am to state, that the Board have no powers whatever, as you may assure yourself by reference to the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act, and the Act amending it. The Commissioners of Sewers are the only body who have any power to interfere for the improvement of the drainage and sewerage of Church Lane and Carrier Street; while its surface cleansing is under the control of the parochial