THE SLUMS OF DUBLIN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1073, 20 February 1883, Page 1

THE SLUMS OF DUBLIN.

Ac a meeting of the Commissioners of Drumcomclra, a suburban township of Dublin, the sanitary officers reported that a house, containing five small rooms and a kitchen, was occupied by twenty Crown witnesses. In one room, eighteen feet by nine, be found seven people-namely, father, three sons, and three daughters—for whose accomodation there were only two beds. In another, six brothers and sisters slept together on two mattresses. Another house was occupied by forty-three Crown witnesses. There was no division of sex. Dr Nedley, medical attendant to the Metropolitan Police, reported the second house ‘ overcrowded and unwholesome. There eras a dispirited lonic of drowsiness prevadiny the entire institution—its garden waste, covered with slimy mud, unmarked by path, or blade of grass, or even weed. The only object that relieved the eye was a mould in its centre, composed of used-up palliasses, aver which was thrown the products of an adjoining pigstye and a garnishing of potato and decomposing cabbage stalks.’ The report was ordered to be forwarded to the Chief Secretary, the Commissioners commenting on the state of things as scandalous and disgraceful*