APPALLING SCENES.
HALF DUBLIN'S POPULATION - BADLY HOUSED. AX APPEAL FOR STATE ASSISTANCE. By Cable—Press Association -Copyright London, April 17. Mr. Chancy, in tile House of Commons, requested the Government to provide State assistance on a generous : scale to remedy the appalling Blum conditions prevailing in Dublin. Mr Bradley stated that if all the 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. Boscowen pointed out that 259 per thousand lived in a single room, against three per thousand in Belfast. Mr. Birrell said that members of the corporation owned only four tenement houses. The Government was unable to provide money for cheap houses for city dwellers.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 272, 20 April 1914, Page 5
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135APPALLING SCENES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 272, 20 April 1914, Page 5
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