CHAPTER V.

RISE OF THE SANITARY MOVEMENT, 1837.

Outbreak of fever in London. Personal inspection of Bethnal Green and Whitechapel. First Report to Poor Law Commissioners. Ventilation in crowded districts. Overcrowding of children in workhouses. Second Report of Poor Law Commissioners, 1839. Takes the Marquis of Normanby (Home Secretary) to see spots reported on at Bethnal Green. Takes also Lord Ashley. Press and public men take up the cause 60