The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . o the public,the demand for which by the working-classes has established beyonddoubt the soundness of the principles which actuated the Committee;and such was the attention attracted to the s
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . o the public,the demand for which by the working-classes has established beyonddoubt the soundness of the principles which actuated the Committee;and such was the attention attracted to the subject by its proceedings,that the government, at the suggestion and instigation of Sir , Bart., induced Parliament to pass an Act to enableboroughs and parishes to raise money on the security of their rates,for the purpose of building baths and washhouses in all parts of thecountry. The provisions of this act have already been adopted by sevenparishes in London. St. Martin-in-the-Fields (constructed by ), of which Sir H. Dukinfield was then the rector; St. Mary-le-bone (constructed by Mr. Eales); St. John and St. Margarets, West-minster (constructed also by Mr. Baly); St. Jamess, Westminster;Poplar; Greenwich; St. Georges and St. Giless, Bloomsbury, aswell as in several boroughs in the country. The general arrange-ments of these establishments are based upon those of the No. i BATHS AND WASHHOUSES. 255
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