DUBLIN'S SLUMS.
OVERCROWDED TENEMENTS. FAMILIES IN ONE ROOM. (Received 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, November IS. A searching Local Government inquiry into the slums and housing has opened in Dublin. The Lord Mayor gave evidence that the tramway fares had a vital connection with the problem. Fares ought to be fixed at a halfpenny a mile. If ten thousand cottages were provided it would lie possible to squeeze out the owners of the worst tenements. 2,G00 families were each living in one room in the Mountjoy ward and 1.145 families in two rooms'each.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 276, 19 November 1913, Page 5
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91DUBLIN'S SLUMS. Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 276, 19 November 1913, Page 5
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