THE SLUM MENACE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 21 September 1923, Page 6

THE SLUM MENACE.

LIVERPOOL’S GHASTLY CANCER

DRASTIC MEASURES NEEDED. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. (Received 8.55 p.m., September 20.) LONDON, September 19. At the Eponomic Section of the British Association, Mr J. J. Clarke, of Liverpool University, described the question of slum dwellings as the greatest of all our problems. He gave many examples of the terrible overcrowding of Liverpool and its suburbs. He mentioned that 597 persons (3l» of whom were over 16 years) were occupying 163 bedrooms. In one district the average was four persons to one bedroom. In another, a man, his wife, and six children occupied one room.He urged the organisation of tho nation for war on insanitary slums. The Government should take the unemployed between the ages of 18 and 20 years and recruit them into royal engineers, and form house building battalions on the lines of the Cockeis battalions created during the war.