AN UNWASHED PEOPLE.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13647, 12 February 1913, Page 2

AN UNWASHED PEOPLE.

, Tlie jnomcoitous..',.Question- as./^.to W;hether o'r'vhot,. ; th'jp'; J gr,atis3ji^are;^aij{^u^i7 : ; washed nation, lias ■been'raised'.'iii-il^onr' don recently following uppn:'5 tKe' ahnouhcemeiit that in a e'^rtai Jn,' parish in Netting Hill a surburb in the West, of London, .there. is.?pnly/iOne::bathroom to every 6000 inhabitants.-'"""''lnquiries* made in; other portions of the metropolis have disclosed .the fact that "An. Bermondsey, with a population of 130,000, there are only 121 bathrooms, most of these are in hotels.' • That the blame is not entirely to bp-laid to. the door of the landlords :is suggested by .the' experienco of the ; ; Lam-beth^-'-^orough Council. This body recently erected forty "model villas" ... as; ; homes for working men: am?-.their 'families,' and,in ''every hoiise; aai--:up-t^datfir' bathroom was provided., .In ; -|tnj|y six s was the convenience,.."iip^eciajted ■ ■ and. the bathroom •used for its" proper purpose. In one house;.lthe'='a'partnient';'TvW:: i xi'S'cd, for liangiiig ixp..^'Kats . In others it was- r made- e a N; generai '-; lumberroom. In yet an-^n'e.r:;-thfe.«TgOf>d- lady of the .hous^ turned tWrfodm^'into a^'sOrt of conservatory, keeping, a.,_numbe,r,,.o'f pot plants and ferns in the bath itseif and on> slielv res;-rouiid,;:th« >room; "It is -so •nicc'--tp-'-haVi&-thei;\va^r*Bo'-:Haridy," ehe sdid,; .beaming. ' xipan tho Council lihspecior ''who siir/eyed her -arrange:m^jrt.s,.:. f vpith:::,nii3T;gled.- feelings. ;;i.The ;'reached-; i liowever r "iff a 'liotftferli^pld;'AV;hich :turned'the. ba%hr'opm.iu^o;;;a/ 'sniall meiiagerig.l ..JR.a^bi|s were--.-kept. iin, hutche^ around; thp; walls; aiid duck'S !«w.am in-the half-filled^batlrinnd1 paddled abotrf'tl^e j.ftwdr^I';Th^.ntMisiasm. of rtho Lambeth Co;uricij' fio; r ."rnodo^\*ill«e" jh'as "W:.cljjfcd |coiis]<l : e ; };a;bJYi:>':',,, ; f/;: -.. : .". : t v ;j ■: ;:■■