MELBOURNE’S SLUMS.
THE HOUSING PROBLEM. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 9.50 a.m.) Melbourne, October 23. . Eefox-e a select committee appointed by Paxdiament to enquire into the housing problem, the president of the Minimum Allotment Anti-Slum Housing Crusade Committee declared that in some of the poorer areas, the housing conditions were a perfect disgrace to a young countx-y. Other houses were such that nobody should be even allowed to keep a pig them. Rents which five years ago were r<s, now were 16s 6d.
A police constable stated that in a certain quarter only two houses out of sixty-five had baths, whereof/ one was dilapidated. ; ami the other had never been used. These houses were almost exclusively inhabitated by Indians, Chinese,, and Assyrians, who worked hard.as icecream vendors street musicians, and hawkers.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 45, 23 October 1913, Page 5
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133MELBOURNE’S SLUMS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 45, 23 October 1913, Page 5
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