120 IMPROVEMENT OF LABOURING 



The health of towns is a subject which 

 would require volumes to do justice to it, in- 

 stead of the few passing remarks which we arc 

 able to bestow upon it in this place. It is a 

 field of industry which has hitherto been 

 seriously neglected, but which is likely to be 

 differently occupied for the future. Several 

 important improvements are now in progress 

 in London, having this among other things for 

 their object. The clearance system of every 

 kind cannot be too effectually persevered in : 

 but while this is being clone, more stringent 

 measures must be enforced for the purpose of 

 preventing the possibility of present evils being 

 experienced for the future, than are yet adopted, 

 Little Albany Street, &c. must be built on 

 Hampstead Common. Our municipal autho- 

 rities must not only prevent, but remove every 

 human habitation from such and similar filthy 

 localities, which are a disgrace both to those 

 who own, those who occupy, and those who 

 allow them. 



If, instead of old houses and crowded back 

 lanes being set apart for our labouring popu- 

 lation in towns, and every other door appa- 

 rently shut against them, a society, supported 



