Second Edition. HOUSING IN DUBLIN.
LAMENTABLE CONDITIONS.
PJTI ElkBOT»IO tTBLEQBAPH—GOPXBIGHT JVmiMD Press Association.] (Received 10 a.m,) London, April 17. ilr 1 Clancy, in the House of Commons requested the"" Government to provide State assistance on a generous scale to remedy the appalling slum conditions prevailing in Dublin. Mr Bradley stated that if all houses "* unfit for habitation were closed more than half the population would be in the streets. Lord Robert Cecil accused the Dublin Corporation of deliberately encouraging insanitary habitations, some owners of which were members of the Corporation. Mr \ Boscawen pointed out that 259 per thousand lived in a single room - against three per thousand in Belfast. Mr Birrell said the members of the Corporation owned but four tenement . houses. The Government was unable to provide money for cheap houses for city dwellers.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 98, 18 April 1914, Page 6
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135Second Edition. HOUSING IN DUBLIN. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 98, 18 April 1914, Page 6
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