[172.] See speech by Sir L. Playfair in House of Commons, March 4, 1884.—Hansard, p. 529.
[173.] See Report from Royal Commission on Tuberculosis, 1898.
[174.] See General Report of Census Commissioners, P.P. 1904, vol. cviii.
[175.] See speech of the President of the Local Government Board, Mr. Ritchie, in introducing the Bill in April. Hansard, 1891, vol. ccclii.
[176.] Statement by the Clerk of the London County Council.
[177.] See his Report for 1899, p. 63.
[178.] P.P. 1890, vol. xvii. See fifth Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Sweating System.
[179.] See the Order made by the Home Secretary in November, 1892, as to “outworkers.”
[180.] Not much interest appears to have been taken in the proceedings of some of the Vestries. Thus, in 1891, the Vestry of Westminster complained of the lack of public interest in the record of their proceedings. “Only eleven ratepayers out of 8,800 have purchased copies (price 2d.) of the Reports of the Vestry in each of the last three years.” (A few years later they reduced their Reports to a few pages.)
And in 1896 the Vestry of Kensington complained of the limited demand for their Annual Report, though it only cost 2d.
[181.] See 3rd Report from Select Committee of the House of Lords on Metropolitan Hospitals, 1891.