City of Street Sleepers
APPALLING CONDITIONS IN BOMBAY Received Friday, 7.0 p.m. CALCUTTA, July 14. Only four per cent of the total population of Bombay city lives under conditions which ensure reasonable privacy. The remainder do not know what It is to have a room to themselves and 86 per cent is housed so inadequately that they are compelled to sleep in the streets. , ' These revelations are made in the Bombay census report just issued. The periodical Communal clashes in the city are attributed by the census official largely to these conditions.
No decision has yet been reached regarding the civil disobedience of Gandhi. It is expected a verdict will be given when the conference resumes to-day.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 July 1933, Page 8
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