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 81 life a»d death, of decency and indecency, because you cannot have decent people without decent houses. I do say we must approach this question, not from the point of view of pounds, shillings and pence merely, but from the point of view of humanity also." In August, 1921, a woman left her miserable temporary shack on the mountain-side at Pontypool to throw herself and her baby into a pond, saying she was tired to death of the struggle for life in such wretched surroundings. Near Newquay, a man with six children had to house his wife in a canvas-covered dug-out in a wild and deserted valley while she brought forth her seventh- born. There was no room for her even at the inn. The Minister was appealed to with a view to allowing the Local Authority to put up an Army hut for their dwelling, but he refused. The Medical Officer of Health recently reported that at Kemerton in the Rural District of Tewkesbury, a woman, who was being confined, had to have an umbrella held over her all the time, owing to the terrible condition of the cottage. She cannot get another house, as the Minister refuses further houses for any rural area. But why multiply instances ? We house human beings in England as we would not house animals or even machines. Every elector knows the terrible circumstances in which so many of our fellow-creatures live, in town and country alike. The Government in 1919 solemnly undertook to sweep away the slums and F

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