Compte rendu des travaux de la Chambre Syndicale pendant lʹannée 1926

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Identifikator:: 1759941719

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-137382

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Title:: Compte rendu des travaux de la Chambre Syndicale pendant lʹannée 1926

Place of publication:: Marseille

Publisher:: Soc. Anonyme du Sémaphore de Marséille

Year of publication:: 1927

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Collection:: Economics Books

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THE HOUSING QUESTION 79 Slum-Dwellers (2 years later) : " Can you start now ? " Minister of Health : " We’ve stopped building houses, so you must stay where you are.” In view of this refusal of the Government to provide the necessary money to work the Act, it is poignant to read of the way people are to-day existing in Great Britain. The following is an extract from the report of the Royal Commission on Housing in Scotland in 1917 " These are the broad results of our survey : unsatisfactory sites of houses and villages, insufficient supplies of water, un satisfactory provision for drainage, grossly inadequate provision for the removal of refuse, widespread absence of decent sanitary conveniences, the persistence of the unspeakably filthy privy- midden in many of the mining areas, badly constructed, incurably damp labourers' cottages on farms, whole townships unfit for human occupation in the crofting counties and islands, primitive and casual provision for many of the seasonal workers, gross overcrowding and huddling of the sexes together in the congested industrial villages and towns, occupation of one-room houses by large families, groups of lightless and unventilated houses in the older burghs, clotted masses of slums in the great cities. To these add the special problems symbolised by the farmed-out houses, the model lodging-houses, congested back-lands, and ancient closes. To these, again, add the cottages a hundred years old in some of the rural villages, ramshackle brick survivals of the mining outbursts of seventy years ago in the mining fields, monotonous miners’ rows flung down without a vestige of town- plan or any effort to secure modem conditions of sanitation, ill-planned houses that must become slums in a few years, old houses converted without necessary sanitary appliances and

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