On The Frequency Of Fires...
TO THE EBIZtOR OF THE TIAIES. Sir,_! trust you will pertuit me to advert to the letter on thig sub'ect, signed E. A., in your paper of thisdyv. Your corresyaiident is pleased to state (sornuwhat confusedly} that be wnadle application to the district surveyor respectfng the mtu- Slto of a fire in Leigh-street, and a similar one ini Orchard-street,- re. questing his interference, which was refused. Leigh-street is not, but Orchard-street is, in my district: he never applied to me. This address of his to You induces me to state a fact withi'n my personal knowledge, perfiaps interesting to- the public. Daring the last seventeen years, In the district of the parish oF St. Alarylebone, there hane been (inel'tdiJg the late fireain Oxford-street, near to Orchard-treet). only siSteen hlouses andl buildings consumed. while thle average number of houses inhabited durirg these seventeenyears may be staete' as above 8,81i0, which demonstrates that barely one house out of 8,31)0 has been consumed snnually on t.'he average. Of' these sixteen fires, only two buiidings, to the hest of my recollection, communicated to one another-natnely, the floor-cloth manufactory, and Lady Huntingdons Chapel, in Riding-house-lane. So far, therefore, the Building Act may be said to huve had itS proper efiect. Referring again to the late fire in Ovford-street, permit nie to ob. sere, that there were no wooden buildings by which the fire wax extendec; but, oat the contrary, it tas altogether confined to the pre- i-eR h- i ti , 1 . t-, 6-- It, -nhP Si-. votir most humlblc servuit. JOHN WHITE, )istrict Surveyor, St. IMarylebnne- ;*ewsvoakl, HRegent's-paak, Nov. 17. 4 He nmeans Oxford.street: It was the bnuCe 2t the C.orner Or Orehard-street. OXV THE FRE QUENCY OF FIRE.