 | Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners, Edwin Chadwick - 1842 - 554 pages
...of the population, in respect to household, and even personal cleanliness. The Rev. Whitwell JSlwin, the chaplain of the Bath union, gives the following...not even drunkenness, is so difficult to eradicate." is almost always much higher than the cost of regular supplies of water even at the charge made by... | |
 | 1843 - 574 pages
...have often wondered to see the shifts which have been endured rather than be at the cost of an extia pail of water, of which the price was three half-pence....not even drunkenness, is so difficult to eradicate." We cite a passage from another paper, which maintains " that the character of the habitations of the... | |
 | Samuel Hallett Griffith - 1860 - 240 pages
...with the statement, on the authority of the Eev. Whitwell Elwin, that by the poor no privation is felt so little as that of cleanliness :— "The propensity...can act as a counterpoise ; and such is the love of un cleanliness, when once contracted, that no habit, not even drunkenness, is so difficult to eradicate."... | |
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With the poor, far less obstacles are an absolute barrier, because no privation is felt by them so little as that of cleanliness. The propensity to dirt is so strong, the steps so few and easy, that nothing but the utmost facilities for water can act... 