ANTI-SLUM CRUSADE.
T-4 HOUSING CONDITIONS IN MELBOURNE. UNPLEASANT DISCLOSURES By Telosrapli—Press Association -Oopyriflt' Melbourne, October 23. Before the Select Committee appointed by tho Victorian Parliament to inquire regarding tho housing problem, the president of the Minimum Allotment mid Anti-Slum Housing Crusado Committee declared that in sorao of tho poorer preas the housing conditions wei'o a perfect disgrace to a young country. Other houses were such that nobody should even be allowed to keep a pig' thero Rents, which five years ago were Bs. a week, were now 16s. Gd. A police constablo stated that in a certain quarter only two houses out of sixty-five had baths, and that of these ono was dilapidated, arid tho othor never used. The houses, in this quarter were almost exclusively inhabited by Indians, Chinese, and Assyrians, who worked hard as ice-cream vendors, street musicians, and hawkers. .
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1888, 24 October 1913, Page 7
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142ANTI-SLUM CRUSADE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1888, 24 October 1913, Page 7
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