THE POOR MAN'S HOUSE

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1922, Page 16

THE POOR MAN'S HOUSE

BISHOP, AND THE HOUSEWIFE'S DIFFICULTIES. The work of the Salford Mothers' Guild, a, branch of the) Ladies' Public Health Society, was commended by^the Bishop of Manchester (Dr. Temple),) who, speaking at the annual meeting, said that those who lived in more leisured circumstances and bad not visited the homes of quit* poor people found it hard tp get any adequate conception of the kind of drudgery that was laid upon mothers of families in these homes. The perpetual cleaning and* preparation of- meals—especially in. a, home where the father and/ sons returned from work at varying times —was drudgery of a kind that was calculated to deaden the mind and make the unhappy woman very irresponsive, at first, to anything Jike Jiew ideas. Blaming the smokoriddeii atmosphere for causing much work in the household, Dr. Temple suggested it would be interesting to know whether last summer the drudgery was materially reduced by the comparative absence of smoke. If the atmosphere of our towns could be made reasonably clear, it.would enormously lighten the burden that now' rested on mothers suoh as the guild was concerned with. He wished they could get people to realise more than they did the immense political importance of public health, whioh lay at the root of a great many of the moat serious problems. Publio authorities were quite rightly taking over more and more of the kind of work in which the society was interested, but whatever they did would never displace voluntary effort in getting the best results..' Lieutenant-Commander Astbury, M.P., said that when he started relief work among ex-service men in Pendleton some eighteen months ago he visited some houses that wore not fit to put cattle in; the conditions were altogether against the healthy development of children. Now that things ware becoming more normal, ho sa>id, there might be n chance of more houses being erected. But, to give the children a chance, he would like cottages to be' built a few milos out of the town, with chonp facilities for the fathers to got to their work

In its report, which was adopted, the committee stated that wlien the environment of the majority of babies waa con- | sidered it was astonishing to ,=ee what had been done. The massage of weakly and delicate children, commenced three years ago, was continue! by the* Health Authority, and had proved an inestimable! blessing. . . !

Sixteen ounces of tjold are" sufficient to gild » wire that would encircle the earth. A well-known firm, of caterers in Lon* &<m Jm> SS.COO pisses ef eseeUei'y tokaa vfpty week. . jt.