The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-27 00:00:00

E are not a

number of

i to " frighten people
own, and prevent all others coming

scions of having deserved the imputation ; for we are
perfectly aware that, in addition to the injury in-
flicted upon trade, by driving our own gentry out
of town and causing

anger:
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3 shun it, nothing

can t

le the mortality

caused by fever amon

population than t

are calculated to create

At the same time, it cannot be said that the jour-
nalist is doing his duty to the public if he either
underrates the evil, or allows any opportunit

him of urgi

the public themselves the necessity of taking every
power. We cannot allow

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aeration

brough

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any other cons

danger to be hushed ui
called alamists, or fo
The existence of a more than usual amount of
sickness in the town is undeniable. Every medical
man is aware of the fact. The parish officers are
equally aware of it. The very fact of two new
fever wards being deemed necessary to meet the
emergency proves it. And although the Journal
thinks the fact, that the number of patients relieved
at the dispensaries during the last fourteen weeks,
has been less than the number relieved in the cor-

responding period last year (some of them having
been transferred to the parish) is " a sufficient
criterion for any one to judge that the amount of
sickness in Liverpool does not greatly exceed that
of the past year," there can be no truth in medical
statistics and medical science if, with the irruption
into our streets and courts of a horde of half-
famished Irish, filthy in their habits and in their
persons, and with high prices of every article of
food operating to depress the condition of our own
working population, we do not very shortly dis-

cover that disease and mortality are increased very
far beyond our contemporary's calculations.

,cow, however, become alarmists.
in reverting to the subject at is to
inquire what is doing to avert the evil which is in
prospect. Is our town cleansed as it ought to be ?
Are the low lodging houses, in which these
wretched visitors and candidates for our charity
herd together, strictly regulated ? Is any
being

We shall not

Our obj

tempt

made even to clean-se their persons and to
prevent them spreading contagion amongst the
casual passengers in our streets, whose eyes they
shock with their studied loathsomeness ? We fear
little is effectually doing in any of these matters.
Granting the full extent and onerous nature of the
duties newly imposed upon the Council—that the
harness in which the Health Committee have to

work is new—that their arrangements may not as
yet be fully completed and their staff of officials
uuequal to the amount of work which the present
emergency will exact from them, we fear that their

direction. It would have been wise for the present
to let Rivington Pike and its mosses alone, and to
employ the means at their disposal in practical
efforts likely to be more immediately productive of
benefit. The scavenging might have been pressed
forward with more vigour. A few hundred pounds
spent in whitewash aril chloride of lime would have
made our lodging houses and cellars and courts
more fit for human beings to dwell in. An in-