"A DISGRACE TO THE CITY."
I.v giving evidence at an inquest at Christchurch regarding the death of a woman, 62 years of age, a medical practitioner said that she had died in a place that was a disgrace to the city, and he 'wished to make a protest against such a. state of affairs being allowed to exist. The woman bad been living with her husband in a building at the end of a right-of-way, a r>lace that was in every sense of 'word the most loathsome he had ever entered during the 40 years that he had been practising in Christ-church. He had seen a great manydwellings of a thoroughly " uninviting character, but bo had never before met with one in. which the conditions were so miserable. The interior of the dwelling was in a most filthy condition, and he could nut understand how it was that the cityinspector allowed such a state of things to exist.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14158, 6 September 1909, Page 6
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