DUBLIN CITY TRAGEDY
SLUM INVESTIGATION PROBABLE OUTCOME. SHOCKING LIVING CONDITIONS. A PATHETIC DISCOVERY. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright)] LONDON, Sept. 4. In connection with the collapse of two tenement houses in Dublin yesterday, whereby many persons were killed, it is stated that the corporation inspector so far back as July last directed certain improvements to be made in the tenements, and these were duly carried out. The accident is likely to lead to an inquiry into the Dublin shines, which are the worst in the United Kingdom. There are twenty thousand families—approximately thirty per ce»t. of the population—living in one-roonr-ed tenements. A pathetic discovery in the ruins was that of a little boy in his cot. There was a look of terror on bis tear-stained face, and his hand was clasping the bed-clothes. The body was almost bruiseless, and it is Believed the child died from suffocation.
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Northern Advocate, 5 September 1913, Page 5
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