This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... Lerwick obtained a charter, and was erected into a Borough of Barony, under the government of two Bailies and nine Councillors, who are elected by the burgesses triennially. Under the charter, and older Police Acts, the powers of the Town Council and Police Commissioners were very limited. In 1867, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... Lerwick obtained a charter, and was erected into a Borough of Barony, under the government of two Bailies and nine Councillors, who are elected by the burgesses triennially. Under the charter, and older Police Acts, the powers of the Town Council and Police Commissioners were very limited. In 1867, however, the "Lindsay Act" was adopted in the Borough, and the hitherto separate bodies of Town Council and Commissioners of Police amalgamated, whereupon the Town Council immediately set about the much required sanitary improvements of carrying out a regular system of drainage, and bringing a proper supply of water into the town. The water is brought through pipes from the "Sandy Loch," which stands on high ground, two miles West of Lerwick. However unable the town may be at present to bear the heavy expenses incident on these improvements, there is no doubt it will be greatly benefited by them. Overcrowding exists in Lerwick to a greater extent than in probably any town of its size. Among the lower orders the dwelling of each family consists of one room, generally from ten to twelve feet square, and seldom more than seven feet high, which serves all purposes, diurnal and nocturnal. Frequently, however, in addition to a family of from five to ten individuals, two or three lodgers sojourn in their already crowded abode. Tenements of the same class constitute the ordinary lodging-houses for sailors, and the peasantry from the country districts. "Mine host," in this instance, is generally an elderly female without a family, or with a very small one. These one-roomed lodging-houses are generally much more overcrowded than the ordinary family dwellings. Very often they accommodate a dozen lodgers of both sexes, and in...
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