COMPULSORY FIREGUARDS.
• -.So■:'■ horrifying ■ litis been the- increase- of 'deaths ■ among, children from burning England that ''ah.:-Act: lias passed .'.to.force fevery. hbuse : to'have-a fireguard; at. the'cost. '6f;:onb shillihg/ ; i:i:The;Act is';-to:Come; into. force'ill' April,"- but -not without much opposi-' ii6hon-th'?'part of'the women suffragists, who regard 1 it 1 asj foolish and unfair." -They contend 'that the.': common-sense way of dealing •with the-difficulty would be to'bnact that,no • houso.shouldibo built without: a fireplace properly guarded Jn: at least, .'one room, and- to send every landlord to 'prison who .broke, the landlord is-mpre able to provide' fireguards.;ihah\V many r, of;- those who-come under thejaw. as it now stands, and to' whom. a shilling: meaifs a day. of drudgery and the. meals:'for'the '■ family.;;: Also, the: suffragists cbhteridy :Ke is a more' suitable'person to send to prison-than-a brok'en-hearted.niother.w'liO: has been obliged to leave" her to dangerrwhile she-was away toiling tor food. 'for-it.-v:' ■/.■■>:?;y^':;. : ; v-^^-Vi.■',.;;.%>
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 439, 23 February 1909, Page 3
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148COMPULSORY FIREGUARDS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 439, 23 February 1909, Page 3
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