THE POVERTY PROBLEM.
Received February 19, %1 p.m. London, February 19,
The King's a*d Queen's visit to the County Council's model dwellings erected on the site of the Milbanks Prison coincided with the debate on Mr McNamara's motion, which was rejected by 205 to 166.
Mr John Barns emphasised the King's interest in the problem, and urged that the condition of London's sixteen thousand pauper lunatics was largely due to drink, begotten of low wages, preventable poverty, and insanitation. The unemployable parsons forming a large proportion at the unemployed demonstrations were born in the slums and reared on gin and fog.
The Hon. Mr Long claimed that the Local Government Board was active in the matter of improvement, and an* nounced a Bill extending the period for the repayment of local loans on the buildings.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 42, 20 February 1903, Page 2
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