HOUSING PROBLEM.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 160, 31 March 1908, Page 7

HOUSING PROBLEM.

• —— ■ A NEW BILL. LATEST LIBERAL MEASURE. BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COrTRIGHT.. (Rec. March 30, 10.41 p.m.) London, March 30. Tho Housing of Workers. Bill, introduced by the President of tho Local. Government Board, Mr. John Burns, has been "read a first, time in tho House of Commons. - ■ It is ;a very drastic measure. In almost all respects it makes tho Local 'Government Board; supremo without reforerico to Parliament, '. . "At tho present time in London," says Mr. John Burns, "ono in seven of tho population livo at the. rate of two to a. room. In Manchester it is ono in six, Edinburgh one in three, and Glasgow ono in two. tto cannot understand .how so intelligent a laca as his countrymen, leading in all tho primal virtues and aboriginal ijuahties, can be content .with that condition of things. • lhepopulation per house m England,; wnero tnoy lived in cottages, is five; in .London it is eight; in New York, where they tenor ments, twenty; in Pans, where they live in i flats, twenty\six; in Berlin, where|tlie.y. live in barrack dwellings, there are forty-six per house; ■ Battersea,'. with one-tenth of the ! population of Berlin, has more bonses than that German; city. 350,000 dark rooms,, and 2,300,000 persons live in 82,000 tenoraent houses. ■ It is possiblo with larger dwellings to have a better sanitary effect than ' m a; small cottage, where there is a lack of dl3o T ll ' 1 r X r Tho ness, sobriety, and no sense of order- lho mora' pnoplo 'ara multiplied oii a aroa the more do they increase phthisis, tuberculosis, personal uncleanlmcss, immorality, and are doprived of /.the amenities and comI forts whioh only a good homo can odor.