Robert Brown Evidence
Sunderland Mayor, Robert Brown, gives evidence towards the 1847 Sunderland Improvement Bill. Continued questions relating to the sewerage system of Sunderland.
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Robert Brown Evidence
1847
Parliamentary Archives HL/PO/PB/5/13/10
Transcript
Q: ...cases even the lower story of the house is apportioned to that filthy purpose
A: Yes
Q: Actually the house itself
A: Actually the house itself
Q: With human beings living in the room above
A: Yes
Q: Where such conveniences or such luxuries I might almost call them in Sunderland as privies exist do they empty into the Mittenstead
A: Yes
Q: Generally is what you have told me a fair representation not of individual cases but of the mass of the poor population of Sunderland
A: It is a fair representation of the state of the Town. I went round the Town when the Surveyors were down and was myself an eye witness of...