:00:14. > :00:34.Hello and welcome to the programme. I think I have bitten off more than
:00:34. > :00:55.I can chew. Also, we check fire safety. And the scourge of baby
:00:55. > :01:15.farming. I am Sam Smith, and this is Inside Out. We have made him give up
:01:15. > :01:53.smoking and take up exercise. Now, David Fitzgerald has challenged us
:01:53. > :02:00.to follow him on a personal quest. Two years ago, I was drinking too
:02:00. > :02:06.much, diabetic and nearly 18 stone. At the moment, your body is that of
:02:06. > :02:13.a 64 year role. Today, whilst I still enjoyed the odd breakfast, I
:02:13. > :02:19.also enjoy the odd visit to the gym. I have set myself a new challenge,
:02:19. > :02:21.to run the Plymouth half marathon. Inside Out has insisted I have a
:02:21. > :02:28.health check. My dietician Hillary is here. What do you call
:02:28. > :02:33.yourselves? Physiologists.They are going to do whatever they do with me
:02:33. > :02:44.in a moment. First, they will weigh me. Your weight has come down, your
:02:44. > :02:50.fat has come down. It is all going in the right direction. You still
:02:50. > :02:57.have an age of 66. So this is what physiologists do. They are taking an
:02:57. > :03:06.ECG, measurement of my hard's activity. We need to make sure David
:03:06. > :03:15.'s heart is happy when it is put under stress. I am glad to say I got
:03:15. > :03:21.the all clear, but where do I begin? I will be here on the start line in
:03:22. > :03:31.four weeks. To say under prepared is an understatement. I have an old
:03:31. > :03:44.friend who is a medal winner. She is going to help me. Walk a bit. Lunge
:03:44. > :03:56.forward. Bob and down. Get your knees out. Try the other side.
:03:56. > :04:06.That's better. I didn't thing you could get down to that. That's much
:04:06. > :04:15.better. For weeks is not a long time but you can build it up. You can
:04:15. > :04:25.walk for 15 minutes, then run for 15 minutes. You will have to go at your
:04:25. > :04:33.own pace. I take my hat off to you. I think you are crazy. Following
:04:33. > :04:43.Catherine 's advice, here I am pounding the streets. I am not
:04:43. > :04:56.smiling. It's two weeks now to look Plymouth half marathon. Nowhere I
:04:56. > :05:04.even running half the half marathon. I am wearing pink because motorists
:05:04. > :05:10.do not see you. I am running a mile, but it is my Lai could not do
:05:10. > :05:15.at the beginning of my training. With five days to go, I haven't been
:05:15. > :05:19.training as hard as I might, so I called in a personal trainer and
:05:20. > :05:26.neighbour. We are meeting at the halfway mark of the half marathon. I
:05:26. > :05:31.am hoping she will be to give me some last—minute advice. What should
:05:32. > :05:39.I be doing? Five days left. I want you to think about getting some good
:05:39. > :05:44.rest in, so no partying, no late nights, get some really good sleep
:05:44. > :05:49.in. Drink lots of water. If you are dehydrated, you will struggle on the
:05:49. > :05:56.day. If you keep looking down when you are running up a hill, and say
:05:56. > :06:10.to yourself, this is flat. I am not confident at all. I am not sleeping
:06:10. > :06:21.properly. 13 miles, I am still 16 stone. I'm not ready for this, but
:06:22. > :06:29.come hell or high water, I will do it. Five words, but the truth is, I
:06:29. > :06:36.am scared I would be able to do it. It's coming up to 10:30pm on
:06:36. > :06:40.Saturday night. In about 11 hours, I will be standing on the line at the
:06:40. > :06:46.start of the Plymouth half marathon. I have done some
:06:46. > :06:50.training, taken some advice and ignored others, and, if I'm
:06:50. > :06:56.perfectly honest, I don't think I am going to make it. I know what my
:06:56. > :07:02.body can and cannot do. Tomorrow will be a challenge. I hope I will
:07:02. > :07:23.be able to sleep, but if I fail, I fail. To be honest, I think I have
:07:23. > :07:33.bitten off more than I can chew. Race day. One last kiss for the
:07:33. > :07:42.enemy, the good lady wife. Should the worst happen, there are
:07:42. > :07:44.superheroes on hand. Don't worry. If you get into trouble, we will save
:07:44. > :07:58.you. The front of this fantastic pack has
:07:58. > :08:13.started. My nerves are tingling a bit. So now it is me, Keith and 13
:08:13. > :08:19.miles to go. The pack is off, and pretty soon, we are out of the thick
:08:19. > :08:30.of it. To be honest, I just cannot run the whole race. In fact, there
:08:30. > :08:38.is a lot of walking. But after six miles...
:08:38. > :08:44.Just under half way now. I am not breaking any records, but I am
:08:44. > :08:53.surprised I have managed to survive this far. My legs are not playing
:08:53. > :09:01.up. I think I am right in saying it is all downhill matter the finish.
:09:01. > :09:04.Never accept a jelly baby. You cannot run, eat and breathe. Let's
:09:04. > :09:48.go. After ten miles, I'm still running.
:09:49. > :09:57.She has just been cleared of cancer. What I have gone through is nothing
:09:57. > :10:04.compared to her. Who knows? Maybe the London Marathon next. Or maybe
:10:04. > :10:11.not. While after computing that, if it's developed some heart problems,
:10:11. > :10:13.which are sorted now. If you are thinking of up a fitness programme,
:10:13. > :10:22.get yourself checked out by a The beauty of the south—west
:10:22. > :10:30.attracts visitors from all round the world but how world class are our
:10:30. > :10:34.hotels? When it comes to keeping their guests safe? For the second
:10:34. > :10:36.year running, we have gone undercover to check on fire
:10:36. > :10:39.precaution, and our results are worrying.
:10:39. > :10:45.Troyed in minutes. —— destroyed in minutes. Fire ripped through this
:10:45. > :10:52.hotel so fast it couldn't be saved. The fire started accidentally.
:10:52. > :10:55.No—one was hurt and we have no evidence to suggest the owners
:10:55. > :10:59.hadn't complied with the laws and guidelines which are aimed at
:10:59. > :11:02.preventing fire, controlling its spread and ensuring people can
:11:02. > :11:10.escape. But elsewhere, the temptation to cut
:11:10. > :11:18.corners has put lives at risk. Six years ago, three people died as
:11:18. > :11:22.a result of the Penhallow Hotel fire in Cornwall. The owners later
:11:22. > :11:28.admitted fire safety breaches. Then in 2011, fire did this to a
:11:28. > :11:34.hotel in North Devon. A fire one guest will never forget
:11:34. > :11:37.If I go anywhere now where there is a bonfire or barbecue, I get
:11:37. > :11:44.flashbacks. In the early hours of May 31st
:11:44. > :11:49.Judith was asleep on the second floor.
:11:50. > :11:55.First thing I knew was the alarm at 3 in the morning. I looked out of
:11:55. > :12:00.the window. I couldn't hear anything but I could hear shouting. "Help,
:12:00. > :12:04.help." She followed an escape route only to fire the exit door was
:12:04. > :12:07.jammed. I pushed extra hard. I kicked. I
:12:07. > :12:15.started to panic. She tried to go back, but there was
:12:15. > :12:20.no handle on the door she had just come through. I thought is this my
:12:20. > :12:28.end? Judith finally managed to pull the door open, and escape from a
:12:28. > :12:33.building which had been riddled with faults. Among them, that dodgy door.
:12:33. > :12:38.A covered up smoke detector. And an escape route blocked by cooking oil
:12:38. > :12:44.cans. The owners were fined £40,000. Last year, we went under cover in 14
:12:44. > :12:47.south—west tourist hotels, with one of the country's leading fire safety
:12:47. > :12:55.experts. All be one failed the inspection.
:12:55. > :12:59.The problem is that today, you book a hotel, you don't know whether it
:12:59. > :13:04.has been inspected by a competent person, you don't know how competent
:13:04. > :13:13.that person was, what degree of knowledge, experience they have. You
:13:13. > :13:19.don't know when the fire brigade checked the building. You could be
:13:19. > :13:20.booking into a hotel which could be a deathtrap.
:13:20. > :13:24.Now, Alan is back, at the height of the tourist season, we are going to
:13:24. > :13:29.check in and check out another batch of hotels.
:13:29. > :13:34.Alan, what is going on? Why do you think will is a problem with fire
:13:34. > :13:41.safety in hotels? It used to be the job of the Fire Authority to inspect
:13:41. > :13:48.hotels and issue certificates but seven or eight years ago there was a
:13:48. > :13:49.change in the legislation, the job rests with the owner or the
:13:49. > :13:53.occupier. So that is a kind of DIY system, is that working? In my view,
:13:53. > :13:58.the system is not working. We set to work and it doesn't take
:13:58. > :14:02.long to find evidence that Alan may be right.
:14:02. > :14:07.Bit chunks of this are coming away in my hand, it is so rusty. On the
:14:07. > :14:12.first floor the doorstep is crumbling.s If I push too hard, this
:14:13. > :14:22.threshold strip is going to go. It is rotten.
:14:22. > :14:27.The rot set in at another hotel too. Wooden escapes are fine, but not
:14:27. > :14:34.when they are in this state. The owners don't know we are filming
:14:35. > :14:39.so we can be sure we are seeing the hotels Taize really operate.
:14:39. > :14:46.We look behind closed doors, and at doors which should be closed for
:14:46. > :14:53.safety. That won't stop a fire. It might as well not be there. Fire
:14:53. > :14:59.doors should fit snugly, not be held open and how wouldk you lie to see
:14:59. > :15:04.this if you are in a hurry? Hotels are vulnerable to arson, so it is
:15:04. > :15:08.best practise to lock store cupboards. Practically every door
:15:08. > :15:14.that is marked keep locked shut is unlocked.
:15:14. > :15:21.Obvious Obviously you have a problem there, that thatsome somebody wanted
:15:21. > :15:25.to set fire they have all the resources, because a fire in this
:15:25. > :15:27.particular area, we would lose the staircases. Which is the main exit.
:15:27. > :15:33.Yes. On to Weymouth. Its hotels last year
:15:33. > :15:38.hosted Olympic visitor, but in Alan's view there were no medals for
:15:39. > :15:43.safety for this one. Important fire protection in the
:15:43. > :15:49.basement was literally full of holes.
:15:49. > :15:56.That was a duct, and obviously somebody has wanted to get services
:15:56. > :16:00.in there, they have removed the fire protection which is this here, they
:16:00. > :16:07.knocked it away, put the services through and not replaced it. So any
:16:07. > :16:10.fire getting in there could go through the hotel, and service
:16:10. > :16:14.anywhere in the hotel. We have electric things charging down here,
:16:14. > :16:21.which is a fire risk. Exactly.Alan was is concerned he reported this
:16:21. > :16:26.hotel to the fire service which has inspected and asked for
:16:26. > :16:30.improvements. The manager said believed the hotel was safe and they
:16:30. > :16:35.had already sealed the gaps. Back on the road, our findings so
:16:35. > :16:41.far are worrying enough, but they come at a time when budget cuts mean
:16:41. > :16:45.parts of the region are losing some fire cover.
:16:45. > :16:49.Places like our next stop Ilfracombement here the fire engines
:16:49. > :16:52.no longer going to be crewed full—time. That means it could take
:16:52. > :16:55.longer to respond to an emergency, in hotels like this one.
:16:55. > :16:59.So, we take a look inside. Again, we find trouble below stairs.
:16:59. > :17:10.So this is part of the hotel that guests don't see, we are in the
:17:10. > :17:14.basement. What we have discovered here is just this great big store
:17:14. > :17:15.room of junk. Much of it flammable junk.
:17:15. > :17:26.If there was a fire in here... That is the point. We are in the
:17:26. > :17:32.basement. A fire that started here would have so much fuel to get
:17:32. > :17:34.going, you have what, three storeys above us of rooms with guests in
:17:34. > :17:38.them. And nearby... In fact it is a boiler
:17:38. > :17:44.room. That is flooding. The owner later
:17:44. > :17:52.told us the leak had only just started. He said the basement was
:17:52. > :17:58.full because it was peak season, and that the rest of the hotel was up to
:17:58. > :18:00.scratch. Alan reported this hotel to local
:18:00. > :18:05.Fire Authority, who have told the owner to sort out the basement
:18:05. > :18:09.issues, he has told us he will. All together, 11 of the 14 hotels we
:18:09. > :18:13.visited failed Alan's inspection. He wants the Fire Service to get
:18:13. > :18:17.tougherment We have seen significant problems and the danger is if the
:18:17. > :18:19.fire authorities don't increase their inspection ratios and
:18:19. > :18:25.enforcement action, then, unfortunately death fires will occur
:18:25. > :18:30.again in hotels. The Fire Service says it targets inspections on high
:18:30. > :18:35.risk property, crept figures show of the hotels it does visit round half
:18:35. > :18:41.are judged unsatisfactory. The system's not working, there are
:18:41. > :18:45.clearly gloerls who do not understand the responsibilities. I
:18:45. > :18:50.would have to disagree with you on that. I think the vast majority of
:18:50. > :18:55.premises do take fire safety seriously. What we found over the
:18:55. > :19:00.last six years is a diminishing number of fire, and we have had zero
:19:00. > :19:06.fire deaths in six years in non—dom stick properties. That is not
:19:06. > :19:07.something we get complacent about. We help businesses to comply with
:19:07. > :19:13.legislation, but the responsibility sits with the people who know and
:19:13. > :19:21.manage the building. And the woman whose holiday turned
:19:21. > :19:22.to horror has a message for hoe grerls everywhere You can't put a
:19:22. > :19:27.price on life. People are coming to stay in your hotel. They want to be
:19:27. > :19:27.safe, don't they. You must, you must have safety.
:19:27. > :19:34.Definitely. It is top priority.
:19:34. > :19:40.It some time seeps as if barely a day goes buy when the media isn't
:19:40. > :19:46.reporting a sad story of child neglect or cruelty. Go back to the
:19:46. > :19:51.19th century and there is every reason to believe things were worse
:19:51. > :19:54.today we have the story of an unsung Cornish reformer who campaigned to
:19:54. > :20:01.protect the most vulnerable in Victorian society.
:20:01. > :20:06.Victorian England was a harsh, uncaring place for a woman unlucky
:20:06. > :20:13.enough to find herself poor, unmarried and pregnant. For most, a
:20:13. > :20:18.baby at the hip meant no home, no job, and likely as not no future,
:20:18. > :20:23.except the gutter. What could a poor girl do but throw
:20:23. > :20:30.herself on the mercy of those running a chilling trade? They were
:20:30. > :20:36.known as baby farmers but more often than not they were child murderers.
:20:36. > :20:42.In the days before formal adoption it was open for any woman to
:20:42. > :20:43.advertise for a child to care for. Adverts like this were common in the
:20:43. > :20:50.with a little family of her own and with a little family of her own and
:20:50. > :20:52.MoD moderate allowance would be glad to accept the charge of a young
:20:52. > :20:54.child. Age no object. If sickly, would
:20:54. > :20:59.receive a parents' care. Term, 15 shells a month or would
:20:59. > :21:06.adopt entirely if under two months for the sum of £12. It seems
:21:06. > :21:11.innocent enough but for a girl in dire need the real message is clear.
:21:11. > :21:16.Alison Rattle has written about the grim business. The industry of baby
:21:16. > :21:20.farming arose out of this social climate that was really against
:21:21. > :21:26.women. You know, that getting pregnant outside of wedlock, so in a
:21:26. > :21:30.horrific way, it did provide a service that was very much—needed.
:21:30. > :21:35.Alison beliefs there was a network of baby farmer, the most prolific ——
:21:35. > :21:42.prolific being Amelia Dyer. She dosed them up with a laud numb
:21:42. > :21:48.mixture, which was a common thing, and it was used to keep babies quiet
:21:48. > :21:52.if they were fretful, but she overused it, so it suppressed the
:21:53. > :21:58.babe bay's appetite. They would slowly waste away. She would starve
:21:58. > :22:01.the babies to death. But Amelia was far from the only
:22:01. > :22:07.practitioner. It was as common to see a body of a
:22:07. > :22:10.baby dumped on street as a dead dog or cat. So it was so commonplace
:22:10. > :22:14.that it wasn't given newspaper coverage.
:22:14. > :22:20.There was of course some public concern about the rising toll of
:22:20. > :22:23.suspicious infant death, but it took one particular case which happened
:22:23. > :22:30.here in Torquay, to awaken the campaigning zeal of a Cornish
:22:30. > :22:39.doctor. He was born in the quiet parish of saint cue. There have been
:22:40. > :22:45.his family here for sents but he left for medical training and the
:22:45. > :22:48.wider world. London beckoned, and he worked tirelessly through a cholera
:22:48. > :22:56.epidemic, volunteering for the Crimean War he nursed Florence
:22:56. > :23:00.nightingale. That was the start of his good work, we have traced one
:23:00. > :23:07.man with a close connection —— connection to the doctor.
:23:07. > :23:13.I am Richard Dickinson, this is my great—grandfather. I think he is a
:23:13. > :23:17.family man, very proud family man too.
:23:17. > :23:23.I mean you can see that straight from these photos, it is the feeling
:23:23. > :23:27.you get. I get when I look at them any way.
:23:28. > :23:33.Richard has the doctors hand—written account of his early life, which
:23:33. > :23:38.gives us little clue as to his future as a champion of the poor,
:23:38. > :23:39.but this does. This is a letter he wrote to the editor of the Times. It
:23:39. > :23:46.will read it out. The lives of the children are in the
:23:46. > :23:50.than of the women who take them in to nurse, there is no law to protect
:23:50. > :23:55.them." He was passionate about this, I think. You know, he was driven to
:23:55. > :23:58.go and do something about it. Staggering, really. Shocking.
:23:58. > :24:05.Yes. By the 1860s the doctor was the
:24:05. > :24:10.secretary of an eminent scientific society, well placed to exercise his
:24:11. > :24:13.social conscience. Which was pricked by the grisly case of Charlotte
:24:13. > :24:20.Windsor. Windsor's crimes in Torquay became
:24:20. > :24:26.widely known. Her clients were country girls who came to work in
:24:26. > :24:31.the big houses as local historian Kevin Dixon explains Torquay was
:24:32. > :24:39.pulling in large numbers of servants to service the house, so by the time
:24:39. > :24:46.we got the 1860s you had about 20% more women than men, which was fine
:24:46. > :24:51.as longs after there was jobs in the industry for these women. We know a
:24:51. > :24:57.lot were desperately poor, if they lost their jobs, one of the few
:24:57. > :25:04.professions they could turn to was prostitution. Desperate women do
:25:04. > :25:05.desperate things. One desperate woman was Mary Jane Harris, who
:25:05. > :25:11.thanked her two month old son to Windsor for a few shillings a week.
:25:11. > :25:17.Barely two months later, a tiny parcel wrapped in an old newspaper
:25:17. > :25:18.was found wrapped near Torquay station. It was Tommy Harris.
:25:18. > :25:23.Torquay was picking up a reputation for being a centre of child murder.
:25:23. > :25:28.As long as it was discreet, things didn't seem to be paid much
:25:28. > :25:35.attention to it. When they did find this baby wrapped in a newspaper, in
:25:35. > :25:43.Torquay, they looked at the record, birth records and went back, and
:25:43. > :25:44.found the mother and then found the baby farmer, and then that became a
:25:44. > :25:52.court case. Was in a regular business? Had she killed a lot of
:25:52. > :25:53.children? If you want wanted Charlotte Windsor to lock a her baby
:25:53. > :26:01.and you paid weekly, the chances of that baby staying alive were high,
:26:01. > :26:02.if you gave a lump sum to Charlotte Windsor it was a very high
:26:02. > :26:11.likelihood and, that that child would not survive. When you say a
:26:11. > :26:13.lump sum, how much? What was going rate? It is an unpleasant
:26:13. > :26:19.topic to talk about how much to kill a baby. It looks like between 3 and
:26:19. > :26:23.£15. What the Windsor case vealed to a
:26:23. > :26:25.horrified public was infanticide wasness just an act of misguided
:26:25. > :26:31.mothers but a regular trade, widely practises with setifies. This was
:26:31. > :26:37.the doctors call to arms, he and his colleagues lobbied for registration
:26:37. > :26:43.of baby minders and a revision of the poor law which led to the
:26:44. > :26:45.epidemic of destitute mothers in the first place. Part of the poor law
:26:45. > :26:51.amendment act, there was a clause that took away a man's financial
:26:51. > :26:59.accountability for any child he may father out of wedlock. The idea
:26:59. > :27:00.being that it would raise a woman's moral integrity and sort of, you
:27:00. > :27:08.know, make her less likely to have sex before marriage, but that didn't
:27:08. > :27:09.take into account men's behaviour. The doctor's radical idea was that
:27:09. > :27:16.the Government should be responsible for the welfare of children. Helped
:27:16. > :27:21.form the infant life protection society, well before the NSPCC to
:27:21. > :27:22.push for new laws. By 1872, thanks to the doctor's
:27:22. > :27:26.campaigning, a new what was passed, bringing in the regulation of child
:27:26. > :27:29.nurses, and the compulsory registration of births.
:27:29. > :27:32.The laws were changed too. Fathers were expected to provide financial
:27:32. > :27:34.support for offspring. The doctor's pivotal role has gone largely
:27:34. > :27:39.unrecognised. His great great grandson is
:27:39. > :27:46.determined to put that right. He does seem to have been forgotten.
:27:46. > :27:50.I don't know why that is. I have more research to do. A lot more to
:27:50. > :27:53.do. I think there is going to be a lot
:27:53. > :27:59.more discoveries to make. Even though I have don loads of research,
:27:59. > :28:03.into campaigners and the industry I haven't come across his name. He
:28:03. > :28:09.should be hailed. The doctor continued his general
:28:09. > :28:14.practise, and more works, but what became of Charlotte Windsor? Unlike
:28:14. > :28:20.meal wra Dyer she escaped the gallows on a legal technicality and
:28:20. > :28:26.spent 30 years in jail. One of only five prisoners of the time to be
:28:26. > :28:32.held so long. The doctor died aged 72. He pricked the conscience of a
:28:32. > :28:37.nation, and helped end thing my last night trade of baby farming so hats
:28:37. > :28:45.off to a doctor, a true if unsung Cornish hero.
:28:45. > :28:51.That is all from Inside Out South West but we are back next Monday
:28:51. > :28:51.with more stories from where you live. So see you then.