ACCOMMODATION FOR THE AGED
Sir, —Your account, in to-day’s issue, of the accommodation difficulties of many of our aged people makes sad reading. A more detailed description of the conditions under which some of them live would be even sadder. Such conditions and consequent suffering are the direct result of lack of decent housing, which it is allegedly impossible to provide. But we have seen in our city, during the last few months, a diversion of labour and materials sufficient to lift many old people from misery to reasonable comfort and happiness. A big business house, destroyed by fire, but adequately covered by insurance against loss of property, loss of profit, etc., is restored with incredible speed, at least to the point of substantial earning capacity.. Can anyone say how, in a community boasting Christian charity, such a thing is justified, while old people, through no fault of their own, suffer yet another wretched winter? — Yours, etc., • VERITAS. July 20, 1948.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25552, 21 July 1948, Page 2
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