The housing question

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Identifikator:: 1023104237

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-61777

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The housing question

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (125 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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8o THE HOUSING QUESTION proper adaptation into tenements for many families, thus inten sifying existing evils, streets of new tenements in the towns developed with the minimum regard for amenity. ; . This account of Scottish slums can be matched all over England and Wales. Here is Sir Robert Newman, H.P., a Conservative Coalitionist, speaking in the House of Commons, 2 ist July, 1921:— " I feel that possibly I may be more unfortunately situated than some Members in that I openly admit that at the last General Election one of the chief planks of my platform was that I would do all in my power to remove slums and bad dwellings. If I had not taken up that position, I should have felt happier than I do to-night. Although I am fully aware of the vast importance of economy, I am bound to admit that when we come to the question of the housing of the people, we have got something to consider as well as economy. It is a matter of life and death. Some Members have spoken as though they had not seen any slums. I venture to think there are not many Members of this House who have not visited slums in their constituencies, and become aware of the state of affairs in these districts. “ I have visited houses which have impressed me most deeply with the fact that I cannot imagine how people live in them at all, with their rickety stairs and wretched conditions. But I know they do, and I have wondered how they get people down stairs when they die in these houses. I have also had the advan tage of a chart very carefully got out by a medical officer. Some Hon. Gentlemen may laugh at these facts, but they are very serious and impressive. I look at the chart which this medical officer has drawn up with little black marks for tuberculosis cases. I have seen in the better-class districts very few of these black marks, but when you examine the slums you find the marks practically jostling each other, so closely are they packed. Under these circumstances, I do say that we have a question of

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