The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-18 00:00:00

it is tne

ations for. the enlargement of the present
khouse, recommended by the Poor Law Com-
are carried out, the locality, admitted
most healthy in Liverpool, and
e of perfect drainage and ven-
le insalubrious ; or to use his

on, will be

ace of the present site of the Workhouse
of a thickly peopled district in the
mplated buildings were erected, en-
lere would be little or no ventilation,
;ease—inflicting pain and suffocation
under affection of the lungs, asthma,
aspiration, feeble action in the
)ility in the organs of digestion,
Id and indigent. Being on the
without a free circulation of air,
ome a receptacle for smoke and
lower parts of the town. This
fall and enter into combination
3osphere within the walls, and thus
)f fresh air food. which is as essential
)ns. And, whilst such effects will be
ates, the health of the inhabitants in
will also suffer from the immense
re atmosphere flowing off, pregnated
hich the inhabitants will inhale."

ime of

e certainly no Tic

pretend to determine upon
)leness of this Rembrandt-like grouping
ils which can befall humanity,
Mr. Urquhart's medical and
rather medicine run mad.
an seems to think that the
being on the summit of rising

a receptacle for smoke and

rn, in which our unfortunate
z shut up will be poisoned like rats in

same gases, &c

are next

rible execution amongst the sur-
,nts, choking them with a " volume
nosphere, flowing off pregnated

Ir. Ur

al knowledge of such singular

hick he pre

n scheme—

sents us of the

sentation of the

Work'

most encouraging and quite
tunately the poetical part of the

foil to the

)use—

its crec

respect to the proposed new workhouse :

officers may have the us

efts in providence, air, earth, and water,
four times larger than the present site,
>ugh, and in a healthy situation, and being

there will not be any o

to gratify

a of any one for architectural beauty, at the
ratepayers ; adaptations and economy to be

motives to build a workhouse, a fever 1

.ce to erect wards in the ev

ireakinc, out. To provide air—instead of
the sick, the idiotic and the imbecile
y confined in the stagnant atmosphere
filleted under restraint, and

rhorn the Select Vestry had no con-
all inhale the vital food of a mire
ng and purifying the functions of
energy to their minds, by bringing
[mid machinery of respiration, giving

ty to the

th, instead of the confined paved yards in Which
pers walk about, that they may, by exercise,
Len the muscles of their bodies, by walking on

that which " is the

)rd's, al

thereof

_ —auers will admit this to be very beautiful
and most sentimental; encouraging to our unfor-
tunate paupers and gratifying in every respect, if it
can be The idea is more than beau-

Our reader.

.cOmplished

tiful : it is comprehensive and grand. A Work-
house, a Fever Hospital, and Lunatic Asylum, all
inhale
the one, with ample space in which " all may
the vital food of a pure atmosphere," and "have
earth (!) instead of the paved yards to walk upon,"
are really delightful objects to contemplate, and, if
secured, will immortalize the Select Vestry, and
render Liverpool a mark and an authority, as hav-
ing succeeded in reaching the perfect idea of a
pauper Bastile. But we see a few objections to it,
and one of them an insuperable one—viz., the fact
that we have neither any necessity for pattern
workhouse building, nor the money to throw away
n the attempt.