BRITAIN'S HOUSING PROBLEM.
..Dr. Macnamara, M.P., attending a municipal conference on housing reform at Letch"iT ■. 1- oUh '' bru "ght some remarkable statistic ■ .to-'bear, upon' tho subject as if ■w.fep.ltl) is ,-cfrticornocl. Iu one part or Liimntghani irfwre . the. housihg is vet" «" ,n - r3t l "> infantile mortality is 331 pto ]i)OJ, in thf model townshio of Bourn-' vilkvck*,, |,v; it. is 66 f«r looo: 'In a part ol Umrlon whurc the population is 213 to the it'.:,-c, C.|k. ■//■!ii.T.-i! death rate is 24 per 1000 ■ i" a it-is no rows than 31 to tho lf ' f: r a . f l' 13 W .pftr 1000. In tlifi..f::<jiw;tafcion oj. Ine when a child is hon ia^soi ! 'years; ifi SonthwarK it is only 36 j And. once more, in Glasgow, among the single room tcwmorits, the death rate is 33 amws; tho four-room tenement's It tills to 11. Ine evils of overcrowding and insufficient accommodation in tho villages-arc rjren more appalling.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 61, 5 December 1907, Page 9
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157BRITAIN'S HOUSING PROBLEM. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 61, 5 December 1907, Page 9
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