THE DUBLIN SLUMS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 90, 18 April 1914, Page 5

THE DUBLIN SLUMS.

STATE ASSISTANCE ASKED FOR

APPALLING CONDITIONS

•> (Received April 18, ]0 a.in.) LONDON, April 17. Mr J. J. Clancy, in the House of .Commons, ■•■requested the Government to provide State assistance on a generous scale to remedy the appalling conditions prevailing in Dublin*' Mr'Brady stated that if all the houses unfit for habitation were closed more than half the population would be in the streets.

Lord Robert Cecil accused the Dublin' Corporation of deliberately encouraging insanitary habitations, some 6f the owners of which were members ;-bf the Corporation.

Colonel Griffith-Boscawen pointed out that 259 per 1000 Jived in single rooms, against three per 1000 in Belfast.

Mr Birrell said that members of the' Corporation owned but few tenement houses. The Government was unable to provide money for cheaper houses! for city dwellers,