The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1913. DUBLIN CITY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 82, 6 December 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1913. DUBLIN CITY.

The hardship and suffering of the poor of Dublin city, as disclosed in the evidence given before the housing enquiry, indicate a very shocking sate of affairs. Recently Sir Charles Cameron made an official report on the housing of the city which included some remarkable particulars. The population of Dublin is estimated at a little over 306,000, and of these about 70,000 are living in single rooms. Six thousand people were reported dwel- • ling seven in a room and 9000 six per room, and there are 3000 rooms which have four occupants apiece. These are significant figures, and to an extent must be taken as propei'ly applicable to cities. That th< % conditions are exceptionally bad in Dublin may be accented from the fact that the average death-rate per thousand of the population there during the past ten years has been 24.8, or 1J above the London rate —and London has its housing problems and campaign against tenements and schemes for inducing people to live further from their work, iOf these Dublin deaths 43 per cent. occurred last year in workhouses, prisons, asylums, and hospitals. It is held that Dublin must have failed to keep pace with other modern cities in its civic reform to have such an exceedingly had record, and the reproach of its unenviable distinction must, accordng to the London ''Times," bechiefly at the doors of the better! .classes, who have shown apathy and; lack of public spirit ; that the city; itself is placed healthily and "swept by! life-giving breezes," and "yet peoplei die like Hies in its squalid shims."