THOSE DUBLIN SLUMS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 61, 18 April 1914, Page 9

THOSE DUBLIN SLUMS.

APPALLING CONDITIONS. By Cable. — Prats -Association.—Covyrighii (Received April 18," 10 a.m.) LONDON, April 17. ; Mr J.- J. Clancy, M.P., in the House of Commons requested the Government t-.> iprovide State assistance on a generous scale to reniedj'the appalling slum eciiditions prevailing in Dublin, Mr P. J. Bradey stated that if all the houses unfit for habitation were closed, more than half of the population would.be in the streets. Lord Cecil accused the Dublin Corporation of deliberately encouraging insanitary habitations, of which some were owned by members of the Corporation. NO HELP FROM GOVERNMENT. Sir A. Griffith-Boscawen pointed out that 25J) per thousand lived in single rooms, as against three per thousand in Belfast. Mr Birrell said that members of the Corporation owned but a few. tenement houses. The Government woiild be unaide to provide money for cheap houses for city dwellers.'