ally exists; nor does the present account comprise nearly the whole of the cases relieved by this charity. Since the 25th of January, when the account was taken, many hundreds of fresh tickets have been issued; and if all these cases were investigated, the totals would be considerably swelled: even then the catalogue of woe would be incomplete, as many who greatly need, this assistance find it impossible to procure tickets. From the imperfect directions in some of the recommendations the parties could not be found; in many instances a true description was not given; some, again, were ashamed to own that they had a ticket; divers were removed, and a considerable number gone into different workhouses: from these causes the ascertained cases come far short of the number taken down. From the book containing the particulars of every individual case, the following tables are formed, in which the number of families supplied with soup in every street, with some of the circumstances of their situation, are stated. In order to abridge the labour of writing, which in the course of the inquiry was necessarily very great, asterisks have been employed, and will be found at the head of the three last columns: a single asterisk denotes distress, two asterisks greater distress, three asterisks particular cases which loudly call for further inspection and relief. The numbers, when not otherwise expressed, allude to families, not individuals; a distinct class has been made of weavers, and those depending upon the silk manufactory, as at the present time a large proportion of them are out of work, in great part, if not wholly arising from the difficulty of procuring a certain description of silk from Italy. There are above 10,000 looms in Spitalfields and its neighbourhood, and by a strict inquiry recently made it appears that 2852 of them are unemployed, and that the persons in family depending upon those unemployed looms amount to 9709. If, to this, looms not half employed were added, the number would be at least doubled; and if we further add the dependents on weavers, as winders, dyers, warpers, quillers, &c.we may have some faint idea of the distress that now prevails. lics. ters. lies. Brought forward 400 696 312 1099 126 233 147 139 7 Half Nicholl-st. Shored. & Beth. Grn. Old Cock-lane 85 43 2 23 13 5 1 4 455 2 342 4 11 441N 1 6 3 5 20100367 1 13 13 137 58 1 19 15 1 13 24 9 58 14 2 8 Kingsland Road. Hackney Road 6 12 4 25 5 8 14 6 35 91 4 132 5 9 6 Brought forward 754 1328 564 2249 448 341 304 261 Whitechapel Spitalfields 13 24 51 34 10 1 Bell-lane 6 12 7 21 5 2 4 8 13 4 23 8 Bishopsgate Angel-alley 29 48 27 69 12 13 111 27 23 17 St. John's-street Fleet-street 59 103 46 85 43 188 38 48 28 23 8 22 16 23 11 1 35 157 34 35 22 14 10 19 17 19 7 2 17 32 12 61 18 13 5 11 1 6 7 7 3 1 Mile End New Town Spital-street 21 40 18 57 15 14 9 8 1 9 5 6 1 Hunt-street 19 33 10 541 28 15 6 13 2 Carried forward 1207 2138 873 3585 823 591 511 409 33 213 594 301 547 195 28 NORTH EAST DISTRICT (continued.) Wea vers, can read. ren. read. &c. Fami Church. Dis sent ers. lies. 12072138 873 3585 823 591 511 409 33 44 79 31 148 43 35 21 10 Brick-lane 31 51 17 80 22 22 7 14 New Montagu-st. 16 29 71 42 14 9 11 1 20 37 17 58 19 9 9 6 Lombard-street 2 1 Church-street 14 26 7 51 9 3 8 3 Outskirts 53 96 38 197 41 30 19 171 |