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Tenements Tho' perhaps for that Reason the more danger of
infection, Therefore upon the whole of this point, your
committee Unanimously came to this Resolution That it
"appears to this committee that the great multitude of
"Inmates Harbourned within the Kills of mortality and the
"parts Adjacent, is very dangerous and may be prejudicial to
"the Healths of his Majestys Subjects, as well as to the public
"peace, and is likewise one great cause of the frequency of
"street Robberys and other Felonys, and that it doth not
"appear to this Committee that the Laws now in being are
"effectual or sufficient to prevent or Remedy such mischief
Your Committee likewise as well from the notoriety, of the
fact as from their observations upon the Returns before
mentioned came to the following Resolution (vizt.)

"That it appears to this Committee that the Extravagant
"multitude of Geneva shops within the Kills of mortality
"and parts Adjacent is one great cause of the encrease of
"street Robbers and other Felons.

And your Committee upon observing in some of the said
Returns the state of the might watch Kept on the several
Divisions particularly in the parish of St. Andrew Holborn
as it stands now divided from the now parish of St. George
the Martyr and the Libty of Saffron Hill Hatton Garden
and Ely Rents (which therefore may serve to show how it
is maintained in other parts) Law therein with the
Utmost concern one Great Rise of the present Complaints,
Your Committee berg leave for a specimen to lay before
the Court a short state of the matter in the said parish as
it was Reported by the Justices acting therein to stand
on the 30th. of October last.

The Watch there is, (vizt.)

For the parish of St. Andrews Holborn -But 17
Watchmen of which two are Readles
and 3 more always attend the
constable at the Watchouse, These
have but 9th P annm each and come but
at 11 and go off at 5 in the morning.

And your Committee could not but agree with the
Justices of that Division in their opinion formed upon
inspecting the respective books of collections for the
payment of the several watchmen of theaforesaid