SLUM CHILDREN AT PLAY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2149, 15 May 1914, Page 2

SLUM CHILDREN AT PLAY

■A SA.TOEDAY NIGHT CISNStJS. The peculiar and unhygienic manner in which the, Lfintkni t-lHld aiiUises liiUinetf is vividly brought out in. a no-vel Itiiid of census which the Medical Officer' of Health for Finsbury, (Dr. Thomas) lTCeiitlv took in a street in tho borough'.. The. time of .ohssrvfttion was a Saturday' at nrtoii, and tin* children wero ten yi>;ivsolet or midor. Those were among . the thines the , doctor saw:— Five children wero suckmp; two tof» feo apples, and passing tlicin frommonth to Month. Scvwal Were aji» piyiiif! tho _samo' "sha.ro ft»d share aiike" principle to silieri?ert dabs. Two littte ones wcro sitting on the kerb aiid throwing mini and fond refuse* at olio another. A bally was. crawling on iill fowrs from oiio side of the street to tho otjief. Threo children wore lying prmie on tho liavcmoiit with their heads just aver the gutter channeling. Two wero fighting for possession of a 'manekss and battered wooden horse. A {jirl had a baby in ii mnikart awl was hersnlf taking n. joy-ride on tho iixle. ''J'ho cart- collided ivith tho kerb ami was overturned. Another little K"'l was nursitig a baby on tho kerb. Both wero fast iisiocp. S«mo idea of the homos frnni which thfl fhihtren were thi'se cliildiike forms of relief may bo gained from Ik' i'acl. thai- forty-six window-iiniu-s in lhi> sli'O's-t. wow lirokon ur üb&mt, whi!»Ihii'lerlt inoiv wiuiimvs w»'i-c f-rarktul. Henv of the panes hail Wi> j>«tclioil ami uiMtdcd with brown p»pi'r.---l<'r«in' tbs' "l);iiiy News.'"'