Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-11-26

49, AOO second mana garments. ~ 1VO
Leaving balance .$199 900
Mr. Jenkins's regrets at not being able to
'thribble" his charities, hardly to be genu-
inc, with such an exhibit. He might still have
enough, l think, 70 purchase new edition of the
illustrated Shakespeare, new edition Of the Brit
ish Essayists, and new edition of the Wasery
Novels, without the necessity Of defacug their
fair proportions by tearing out tell-tale fyleat.
Whether the House Of Correction will yet fur
nish a suit Of parti color to Mr. Jeukins-Winter
carmen is that will endure longer than the "crook
ed stuff he gives away, and more indicative of
the wearers obsracter-is secret of the future,
only to be determined by the faithfulness of our
public officers. That he may, however, and thus
meet punishment due his crime, is the wish Of
all honest men, and of your correspondent.
THE GREAT METRoPoLIs.-At the last CEN
sus,. London contained 1862, 236 souls, name
ly: ], l06,55S males, of whom lag, 449 were
under five years of age, and l, 255, 678 females,
of whom l47, l73 were under five years of
age. The unmarried males were go, $50; do
females, 1851; the married men were
$500 the wives 400, 73l; the widowers
were $1,000, and the widows Ito, 076. On
the night of the census there were 8,598
husbands whose wives were not with them,
and 80, 23l wives mourning their absent lords.
Last year the number of children born in
London was S6,S33; in the same period 66,-
786 persons died. The Register General as
sumes that, with the additional births, and the
fact of soldiers and sailors returning from the
seat of war, and of persons engaged in peace
full pursuits settling in the capital susten-
ance, clothing and house accommodation
must now be found in London Tor about Co.,
900 inhabitants more than it contained at the
end of 1858.
London is said to be one of the healthiest
cities in the world. During the last ten
years, the annual deaths have been, on the
average, % to 1000 of the population. In 1856
the proportion was % to 1000; yet, in spite
of this, half of the deaths that happen on an
average in London, between the ages of 20
and 40, are from consumption and diseases of
respiratory organs. The Register traces this
to the state of the Streets He says: "There
can be no doubt that the dirty dust suspend
ed in the air, that the people of London
breathe, often exoites diseases of the respira-
tory organs. The dirt of the streets is pro-
duced and ground, now by innumerable
horses, omnibusses, and carriages, and then
beat up in fine dust, which fills the mouth
and inevitably enters the air passages in large
quantities. The dust is not removed every
day, but saturated with water in the great
thoroughfares, sometimes ferments in damp
weather, and at other times aseends again
under the heat of the summer sun as atmos-
pheric dust"
In London, Mr.. Mathew calculates that I69
people die daily, and baby is born every five
minutes. The number of persons, says the
Registrar General, who died in 1856, in l16
public institutions, such as work houses and
hospitals was 1881.
According to the latest reports, there were
in London l43, 900 Migrants admitted in one
year into the casual wards of the work
houses. "Here we have always in our midst
l07 burglars, 10 house breakers, SO highway
robbers 779 pick pockets, 1867 sneaksmen or
common thieves, IL horse-stealers, l4l dog
stealers, forgers, Is coiners, 3l7 utterers of
base coins, l4l swindlers, 1872 cheats, 343 re-
ceivers of stolen goods, 2,76S habitual rioters.
1926 Migrants, 90 begging letter writers, So
bearers Of begging letters, 1902 prostitutes
besides 40 not otherwise described making
altogether total of 5000 criminals known
to the police"
Almost $1,000 persons are engaged in Sum
day trading the number of ragged children
is nearly $4,000; the number Of families liv-
ing in one room, is estimated as high as l5O,-
900. Itappears from report by MIR. Code
rich, officer Of health in the parish of Ken
sington, that in place called the Potteries
there are ll47 human beings and IO4I pigs
congregated within space of nine acres-the
present number Of pigs being below the usual
average. The dwellings of large proportion
of the inhabitants of this locality are mere
novels, with shattered roofs and unglazed
windows, the floor is below the level of the
external soil, which has been raised by ex-
cessive aocumulations of filth OF all kinds,
and the walls are at all times partially damp,
and giving out pestilential gases, intolerable
to those who have not been born among them,
and fatal to the health Of those who have.
Another portion Of the miserable popula-
tian have converted old caravan bodies, re-
moved in some cases from their wheels, into
houses others have no other dwellings than
ruinons post chase bodies, for which rent
of sixpenee a week is paid. In one of the
caravans eight persons dwell, among whom
child suffering from small pox, was battling
with death at the time OF Mr.. Godorich's visit
in March.