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

the money

! it has just been discovered that another
the Select Vestry—think that they
to have a hobby to ride,
well as the Courts of Law Committee and the
Health Committee of the Town Council. So, we
have during the last week been treated with a reso-
lution of that body to proceed to the erection of a
new suburban workhouse. In the words of the
report upon which this resolution is founded, the
Select Vestry is recommended to purchase a quan-
tity of land beyond the Parliamentary borough, and
to erect buildings thereon suitable for all the pur-
poses of a Workhouse, Lunatic Asylum, and recep-
tacle for idiots and imbeciles,"—the latter of whom
must be rather numerous among the ratepayers of
Liverpool, and the building required to contain
them very spacious, if they can be bamboozled into
matting to this preposterous proceeding. Fur-
the newly-erected wing of the workhouse
Mount-pleasant, which has just cost
3 to be "rendered available for parish
_
offices," and tolerably expensive offices they will
be !—whilst the excellent and commodious site of
the old workhouse is to be sold for building upon;
and is estimated to produce, with the materials, as
much as will be required to erect the new suburban
We must be permitted, however, to go
rathermore into detail with respect to the proposi-
rounds upon which it is recom-
led to be adopted by the vestry and parish-

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is stated by Mr. Urquhart, who moved the
rmation of the Building Committee's Report,
it is the opinion of that body that, when the
ons for the enlargement of the present
recommended by the Poor Law Com-

Workhouse,

missioners are carried out, the locality, admitted
to be one of the most healthy in Liverpool, and
eptible of perfect drainage and ven-
tilation, will become insalubrious ; or to use his

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n language

In consequence of the present site of the Workhouse
ig in the midst of a thickly peopled district in the
1, if the contemplated buildings were erected, en-
yards, there would be little or no ventilation,
—case—inflicting pain and suffocation
affer under affection of the lungs, asthma.
ions of respiration, feeble action in the
I, and debility in the organs of digestion,
ong the old and indigent. Being on the
,g ground, without a free circulation of air,
will become a receptacle for smoke and
rom the lower parts of the town. This
there will fall and enter into combination
id atmosphere within the walls, and thus
ages of fresh air food. which is as essential
it rations. And, whilst such effects will be
ie inmates, the health of the inhabitants in
hood will also suffer from the immense
house atmosphere flowing off, pregnated
hich the inhabitants will inhale."
w e certainly do not pretend to determine upon
—lnableness of this Rembrandt-like grouping
-ils which can befall humanity,
of Mr. Urquhart's medical and
rather medicine run mad.
Y vestryman seems to think that the
" being on the summit of rising
a receptacle for smoke and
from the lower part of the town"
cistern, in which our unfortunate
im will be poisoned like rats in

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)an of sulphur. The same gases, &c., are next
fall and do terrible execution amongst the sur-
)itants, choking them with a " volume
phere, flowing off pregnated
e Mr. Urquhart has picked
al knowledge of such singular

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s passes our comprehension.
ae picture with which he presents us of the
is of his suburban scheme—as a foil to the
esentation of the Brownlow-
-is most encouraging and quite
y the poetical part of the
credibility. Mr. Urquhart

poetical. Unfortur

s from it

trays, wits

:et to the proposed new workhouse

snd officers may have the use of their
providence, air, earth, and water,
east four times larger than the present site,
borough, and in a healthy situation, and being
will not be any occasion to gratify
y one for architectural beauty, at the
adaptations and economy to be

That the paup,

leyond the