DUBLIN SLUMS.
ONE-ROOM TENEMENTS.
THE WORST IN BRITAIN
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright! [United Press Association.] (Received 8.3!) a.m.) London, September -I. Tho corporation's inspector during July directed that certain improvements should be carried out at tin collapsed tenements, and these wen duly effected. The accident is likvh to lead to an inquiry in the state 6 the Dublin shuns, which are the worst in tho United Kingdom. Ttventj thousand families, approximately :■ third of the population, are living v. one-roomed tenements.
A pathetic discovery was made u the ruins. A little boy in a cot ha< a look of terror on' his tear-staiue< face, and his band was clasping tin bed-clothes convulsively. The body was almost free from bruises, and it !.' believed he died of suffocation.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4, 5 September 1913, Page 5
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124DUBLIN SLUMS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4, 5 September 1913, Page 5
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