The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1841-09-22
MISCELLANEOUS.
CONDITION OF THE WORKING
CIASSESOF GREATBRITAlN.

of Great Britain, present a picture aPpall-
ing and truly horrifying. These reports
are irrefragable evidences of the physical
and moral degradation of the working and
humber classes of Great Britain, and are,
no doubt, the silent causes of the late, and
indeed present dissatisfied and disturbed
state of the people; fornothing so quickly
evokes from itsmurky habitatlons the spIr-
it Of revolt as poverty. The following IS
a condensed statement of the returns con-
tanned in the reports alluded to,
Nottingham has population of so, 600:
Within the town, which consists of ii, 600
houses, there are from 7, 600 to 8, 600
built back to back. When the cholera
ragged many rows of houses were found to
be placed upon drains, which were shall
low and simply covered with the boards
ofthe sitting room floors. These when
shrunk by heat, allowed noxious smells to
rise. The health and morals of the resi-.
dents suffered greatly from the state OF
their dwellings.
Liverpool population consists Of 100000
There are IN the borough of Liverpool
1862 inhabited cellars, dark, damp, con-
fined, ill-ventilated and dirty. These eel
lars contain one fifth of the working class
es,, being $4,000 persons, and ofthe whole
population they contain one seventh
There are 2,27O courts, inwhlch there are
six or seven families, and few OF these
courts have more than one outlet.
Manchester population, 100000: 1t
was ascertained that IL per cent OF the
working popu lation live in cellars. There
arc of that class 12S,000 persons, OF whom
S4,676 live in cellars.
In Stafford, there are 49,99l OF the work.
ing classes, 1885 of whom dwell ncellars.
1t is stated that of $1,000 dwellings Of the
working classes, which were examined,
400 were i'll furnished, and lO,4OO
scarcely comfortable,
In Berry, the population is 10000. The
following statement of the condition OF
5000 of the families of the working class
es in this place is most revolving. In 773
houses they slept three to four in bed; in
in 267, they slept four to five in bed; and
and in 7s, they slept from five to six in a
bed! This awful statement must rouse
the honest and religious Indignation OF
every Englishman.
Bristol population is about 10000 or
1853 fannie 5, consisting If 10000 per-
sons, $500 families have but one room;
639 houses are without sewers; and 1904
houses are without water, Or are supplied
with bad water. Newcastle-on-Tyne
population $4,000. The examiner of this
place reports as follows: In many parts
the dwellings are close, dirty, and misera-
Bile, without order or comfort, whole fami
lies nhabitng single room, and living in
an atmosphere totally uncomfortable. The
mind cannot picture state ofgreater des-
titutiou or misery. Leeds population 60
600. Ofl7,sO0 houses, l3,6O0 arc under
9lO per annum, and contain 6l,OOO off
the working classes. The streets are very
bad, one half ofwhich are hung with linen
and are impossible to horses. The north
east ward contains l5.400 working people
and has SO streets. Orthese, three have
sewers, twelve have them partly, thirty
eight are without sewers, and forty are
unknown. In 1889, the deaths in Leeds
were one in % and half Glasgow: Mr.
Simmonds the Commissioner, speaking of
this city, -"Until visited the wynds
Of Glasgow, ! did not believe that so large
an amount of filth, crime, misery, and
disease, existed in any civilized country.
In the lower lodging houses, ten, twelve,
and sometimes twenty persons of both
sexes and all ages, sleep promiscously on
the floor, in different degrees ofnakedness.
These places are such as no person of
common humanity would stable his horse
in; the lower parts of several of those hou-
ses are spirit shops, pawn-shops. or eating
houses. The population of these wretch
cd districts is probably 10000, it certainly
exceeds 10000 persons, who are passing
through the rapid career of prostitution,
drunkenness, and disease. The number
of persons who died last year was 1920,
or one to twenty-three and a half of the
whole.popuIation; and ofthat number $50
died .oftyphus, disease which never lea
yes Glasgow" 1t appears from another
statement, that in 1885. the number Of
persons. attacked by fever was 6,ls0; in
1909 I0OO0. and :, 1oo1 OF oo0