Posted with permission of the transcriber, Ann Selchick. Geo SICKNESS & POVERTY IN Nineteenth Century Whitehaven. # 54. MOUNT PLEASANT. Mount Pleasant is a congregation of most wretched dwellings, situated on the side of a hill, and they are principally approached by steps much worn, broken, and in a ruinous condition; dangerous in daylight and summer, and necessarily much more dangerous in winter during the long, dark nights and frost. Many of the tenements cannot be called rooms, they are so dreary, black and loathsome; some of them were formerly used as nail maker's shops, and without any alteration or cleansing from that time. They have been let off as tenements at a low rental of 6d or 9d a week; in one instance to an old couple, recipients of out-door parish relief. There are about 1,825 inhabitants in Mount Pleasant, without any form of privy accommodation, or any regular supply of water. There are no public or private lamps throughout the year. __________ SOLOMON'S TEMPLE. Solomon's Temple is a ruinous pile of building left off into room tenements; there is a confined yard behind covered with human refuse; pigs are kept in such cellars as are not occupied as tenements, and for years the attics were made a receptacle for all the ashes of the place and the refuse from the children. Latterly a public privy and ashpits has been erected in front; but, like most other public privies, it is the filthiest spot about the place, inasmuch as it is totally unfit for use, and serves merely to concentrate the former nuisance. To be continued.