LONDON'S LABOURERS AND PAUPERS.
FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. Becaived 19,10 54 p.m. ■ London, February 19. The King and Queen's vis t to the London County Council's model dwellings, erected on the site of the Milbank prison, coincided with fc&e dubate on Dr Macnamaras' motion as to workmen's homes, which was rejected by 205 to 166. Mr Jobn Burns, a labour member, emphasised the King's iuterest in the problem, and that the condition of Locidun'tj 16,000 paupers and lunatics was lirgely due to drink, begott n of low wages, preventible poverty, and insanication.
Unemployed persons, forming a large prepirtion at the unemployed demonstrations, were born in slum?, and reared on gin and fog. Mr Long, President of the Loc»l Government Board, claim'd thai the Board was activ» in the mater of impioveuients, and he announced h Bill would be introduced the period for repiy merit of ljcil loans for building?.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 45, 20 February 1903, Page 3
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148LONDON'S LABOURERS AND PAUPERS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 45, 20 February 1903, Page 3
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