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OVER LAND AND SEA

CIVILISATION! Terrible statistics were {jiVen by J. C. Davison, M.P., a •lormer sanitary inspector, in his speech in the House of Commons on the Housing Bill recently. There wer c 3,500,000 peopl e in England, he said, who live in les3 than half a room .each;' 7,000,000 who have less than-a rcoin apiece; and 23,000,000 who live in tenements of from one tofive rooms. Over 50U,(W0 more houses were required merely to allow for the provision in England of one room per head. These conditions were reflected in the rates of infantile mortality, which, Air. Davison .reminded the House, were as high as 160 per thousand for miners, and 150 to '-'SO per thousand for unskilled laborers, while for doctors it was only 40, and for the middle-classes generally only 77 per thousand. Not 400,000 new houses were required as had been stated by those responsibe for the bill, but a million, if the present insanitary houses were lo be replaced.

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