IN DARKEST LONDON.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Issue 116, 20 February 1895, Page 3

IN DARKEST LONDON.

Some nowum/H beveiationb. A terrible picture of somo of tho-sub-terranenn dons in which poor- inhabitants of Loudon pursue, their daily avocations is drawn by tho 'Medical Officer of Health far St. George, (he Martyr, Southwark. Belo.w a milk shop Dr Waldo found a woman washing clothes ill a cellar that had lately been flooded with sewage. Among other flooded cellars woro those of a model dwelling, a sweetstuff shop, and a bank. Another was that of an auctioneer, in whoso shop a couple of hundred people or. more were in tho habit of congregating at ono time. The concrete ileor of the cellar was cracked by tho backward pressure from tho surcharged and inadequate main sower. A portion of a similarly damaged cellar in tho next house was used as a kitchen, and in it a maid-of-all-work and threo young shop girls wore in tho habit of taking their meals. Tho last place visited was a baker's shop, beneath which was a cellar used as a bakery. Hero' tl'ie master and his journeyman woro actually working as best they could }n a flood of sewage. In one corner of tne woriisnop a row of sacks filled with flour rested on a wooden platform throe inches in height. Tho sowago had risen to a height of four inches, as shown by the stain on tho wall, and, by tho bakers admission, had fouled the under surface of tho sacks and caused a portion of tho flour to cake together in lunvps, At the same time it was admitted that tho flour from those particular sack had been made into bread.