APPENDIX to the CIiriONlCLE. 



117 



time it is expedient, as your com- 

 mittee have already represented bo 

 the house, to permit all kinds of 

 bread, except such fine bread as 

 that upon which the assize is at pre- 

 sent set, to be made and sold with- 

 out being subject to the regulation 

 of assize. 



It also appears expedient, that 

 when the new assize, shall be esta- 

 blished, and the use of fine bread 

 prohibited, permission should still 

 be given t« make any bread of in- 

 ferior price, either from the whole 

 meal of wheat, or with a mixture 

 of wheat and rye, barley, oats, rice, 

 or any other wholesome gi-ain, with- 

 outassize. By this means a still far- 

 ther economy of wheat may be pro- 

 duced in such parts of the country 

 as may adopt the use of such mixed 

 bread; and from difierent specimens 

 produced to your committee, it ap- 

 pears, as before stated, that wheateu 

 meal, of the same quality as is here 

 recommended, will make excellent 

 bread, with a mixture of other spe- 

 cies of grain. The use of such 

 mixed bread will also afibrd the 

 means of bringing into consumption 

 •juch fine flour as may be obtained 

 by importation, as well as any small 

 quantities which may be left in the 

 hands of the millers, subsequent to 

 the time when the use of fine bread 

 will be prohibited. 



Fifth Report ofthesameCommiUee. 



They have, in proceeding in the 

 matters to them referred, received, 

 from certain parishes in the imme- 

 diate neighbourhood of the city of 

 London, representations of the ex- 

 treme difficulties under which they 

 at this time labour, through the 

 very great number of poor who are 



induced to reside in those parishes 

 by the cheapness of lodging, occa- 

 sioned by the general smallness of 

 the tenements, and by the impossi- 

 bility of finding suitable accommo- 

 dations in the richer and more cen- 

 tral parts of the metropolis. The 

 paiishesfrom which these represen- 

 tations have come to your commit- 

 tee, are those of St. Matthew, Beth- 

 nal-Green, Mile End New Town, 

 and Christ Church, Spital-P'ields, 

 which are contiguous to each other. 



The poor rates in this district, 

 which stand now, subject to abate- 

 ments as to some of the smaller 

 houses, at between four and six 

 shillings in the pound, appear to be 

 not materially higher than those of 

 several other parishes ; but though 

 the rates are not higher, it is evi- 

 dent to your committee, from the 

 fact laid before them, that the pres- 

 sure on the inhabitants must be much 

 more than commonly severe, since 

 they consist very generally of per- 

 sons in either low or very moderate 

 circumstances, a great proportion cf 

 whom, if residing in other parts of 

 the town, would be wholly ex- 

 cused. 



It is stated to your committee, 

 that in Mile End New Town, out 

 of 6"30 houses which are assessed to 

 the poor rates, no less than 529 are 

 supposed to pay a yearly rent of only 

 11/. and under, and 73 others to 

 pay a rent of only 19/. and under: 

 it is also stated, that of the remain- 

 ing 28 houses in that parish, 20 pay 

 a rent of less than 28/. five of .S.5/. 

 and under, tvvo (of which theSpi- 

 tal- Fields workhouse is one) a rent 

 of about 70/. and one only, being 

 a warehouse, a rent of 280/. The 

 whole annual rental of this parish, 

 charged to the poor-rates, amounts 

 to no more than 6",l6'7/.: among 



