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CONDITION OF THE POOR, By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 10.54 p.m., Fob. 19. Loudon, Fob. 19. Tho King and Queen’s visit to the County Council’s modol dwellings eroded on the site of Millbank Prison coincided with the dobato on Mr Macuamara’s motion, which was rejected by 205 to 160. John Burns emphasised tho Kiug’s interest in the problem. Ho urged that tho condition of London’s sixteen thousand paupers and lunatics was largely duo to drink, begotten of low wages, preventible povorfcy, aud insanitation. Persons forming a largo proportion of the unemployed demonstrations were born in the slums and reared on gin and fog. Mr Long claimed that the Local Government Board was activo in tho matter of improvement, and he announced a Bill extending tho period for repayment of local loans on buildings.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 821, 20 February 1903, Page 2
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