PRINCE OF WALES IN SLUMDOM
In order to'investigate the housing conditions of the poor the Prince of Wales paid a visit to.Southwark. .Accompanied by the Duchess- of Jlarlborousrh,' who wns recently elected to the L.0.C.. tlio Prince visited several families in a large block of tenement buildings in Tabard SI roe t. "I see you have no bathroomhe said lo Mrs. Trodd. wlio lives with her two daughters at No. 84. "How do you manage to get a bath?" Mrs. Trodd replied that they heated the water in the copper and. bathed in the bedroom. "That's not very good," said the Prince. Another house visited was No. 81, where llrs. B-illaai lives. The Prince noticed' that the piano was in the kitchen. "Ynn sp".'" Mrs. Bnllnm explained, /'we only linvo two rooms and wc are vcrv fond of music." The Prince afterwards went round Bolh--Icm .Hospital. Aldermnii V,'. -T. Wighlman, entertained bv the Hons i:i Tnniperancn in honour of his election as Mayor of Southwark, referred to the visi': cf the Prince of Wnles In :-'ou(liwni-k. Ho •-tiicl lk> Prince ami he climbed the stairs of one house to an attic so low that neither could sland u/ight. There was no furniture oxcent two bedstead.*. with a iwitlrc's on each and soiuo rags for bed coverings. The window had broken sash-frames, and several rranes of glass were gono. Alderman Wiglitman asked the Prince what of it."It is damnable!" he replied.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 231, 24 June 1919, Page 6
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240PRINCE OF WALES IN SLUMDOM Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 231, 24 June 1919, Page 6
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