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Identifikator:: 883823179

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-4396

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: König, Joseph http://d-nb.info/gnd/119182084

Title:: Die Untersuchung landwirtschaftlich und gewerblich wichtiger Stoffe

Edition:: Dritte, neubearbeitete Auflage

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Verlagsbuchhandlung Paul Parey

Year of publication:: 1906

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 1083 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Milch und Molkerei-Erzeugnisse

Collection:: Economics Books

THE HOUSING QUESTION 23 The Minister of Health in the debate in the House of Commons, on 21st July, 1921, when the Government stopped their housing scheme, said :— " Our needs are very much what we want to make them. For instance, possibly we should all like to live in a very much better house than we have got." One feels that such a sentiment, if the Minister would advance it at a meeting of slum-dwellers, would greatly relieve their discontent and would enable them to realise that even Sir Alfred Mond has to live in a house which is not nearly as good as he would like. Mr. Pecksniff could not have put it more clearly. And, after all, have we not grown into the greatest nation in the world without all this molly coddling ? Did not our population pour forth from the garrets of Bethnal Green, the back-to-back houses of Leeds, and the tenements of Glasgow, to do battle with the Hun, and did we not win the war ? What do our people want with gardens and porches, and parlours ? Baths ! They are only used for coals and cauliflowers. Drains! They generally involve smells : better do without them as our fathers did. Our needs are only what we make them. These great “ wens " of England, as Cobbett called them, with their strength belching forth out of their chimneys and lying like a pall between the blue vault of heaven and the children of men : these human warrens where stand the houses of massed humanity, 40 or 50 to an acre : close and neighbourly no doubt, and handy to the factory and workshop: these, says

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