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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THE HOUSING QUESTION 59 are beginning to see through it. afford to malign its own servants. No country can NOTES ON THE FOREGOING. The following quotation from the Minister of Health’s speech in the House of Commons, on 13th March, 1922, displays a power of exaggeration and prejudice difficult to compete with :— "... A large amount of this saving [i.e., a reduction of the Ministry’s annual estimates] is partly war bonus and partly the abolition or reduction of the housing staff, and, when I said earlier in the Debate that I wondered whether anybody was anxious that we should continue with the scheme we had been working in the past, I was thinking of the enormous overhead charges involved from the nature of the scheme, and I thought it could be avoided by a scheme of a different character. I am sure nobody, either local authorities or anybody else, desires to have these unnecessary overhead charges and duplication of salaries if they can be avoided. . . He was, of course, playing to the gallery. No one knows better than the Minister of Health how small, how necessary, and how fully economical was the money expended on his housing staff. Evidently one cannot expect from Sir Alfred Mond any recognition of the work done by his officials, whether permanent or temporary. THIRTEENTH EXCUSE That Private Enterprise sufficed in the Past and should suffice To-day

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