Wellington Pond. A large piece of water into which the above sewer drains—gives off constantly innumerable bubbles of gas, and the stench is sometimes abominable. Persons who have accidentally fallen into it, though taken out immediately, have all died.
A thoroughfare leading from bottom of Pollards Row to Wellington Row. The lucifer match manufactory faces this road, into which we all went. An open ditch in the most filthy condition.
Squirries Street. Green stagnant water on each side.
Wellington Row. Lower rooms all damp. An open ditch in front. Western end soft mud, into which the wheels of a waggon sank 14 or 15 inches as it passed.
North Street and some of the houses at the back. Lord Ashley saw the landlord of some of them.
Waterloo Town (several streets). All undrained, but part of Manchester Street and Albion Street. Many variations of level of several feet at a distance of a few yards only, as Manchester Place, Derbyshire Street, Sale Street. Many of the houses back to back and consisting of five ground-floor rooms only.
Second Visit.
George Street. A centre gutter full of stagnant water.
Old Bethnal Green Road. Has had a sewer made recently, but houses do not communicate with it.
Clare Street, Felix Street, Centre Street, Cambridge Circus, Minerva Street, Matilda Street, Hope Street, Temple Street, Charles Street, Charlotte Street, Durham Street. All built on undrained ground, and the houses affected with damp.