CABINS CONDEMNED
OUTLOOK IN PEPYS’S DAY.
The difference between modern outlook and the ideas of the seventeenth century is demonstrated in some notes on Papys’s ideas’ of cabins on board ship in the August issue of “The Port □f London Authority Monthly.”, “The importance attached to cabins nowadays contrasts curiously with thr attitude which prevailed when Mr Pepys worked at the Admiralty. At that time cabins on board ship were not only considered a nuisance and waste of space, but definitely undesir able. Pepys attributed all the faults of the officers and slowness of naval shipto cabins. “It was said that the unlimited number of cabins built in the King’s ship:were costly, gave rise to the pesterinr of the ship, contracting of sickness temptation to officers to neglect their duties and misspend their time in drinking and debauchery, the danger of fire and disputes between officers regarding the disposal of cabins.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1939, Page 7
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151CABINS CONDEMNED Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1939, Page 7
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