HOUSING AND DISEASE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11216, 23 October 1914, Page 7

HOUSING AND DISEASE.

LECTURE BY NURSE MAUDE. In the Richmond' Methodist Schoolroom" yesterday afternoon there was a largo attendauco of ladies, when. Nurso Maude delivered a lecture on Housing and Disease." The speaker drew to the fact that the 9uestto.ll of 'housing was. one which particularly aifectcd tho unskilled labourer, whoso averiigo earningß were about 83 per day._ Such a man, with a wife and family., was generally found to bo paying about los per Week rent, and it was her experience that these people* found life very difficult. Tho majority of tho houses wore not at all suitable to tho requirements of a family. Particularly did they fall short of a hygienic standard in'the matter of bathing ••accommodation. Whoro a young family had to bo brought up tho intl/ was a> matter of very earnest' consideration. Under conditions as .she had . found' them in this'city, it. Was generally'V case" of the children all. bathing iu the name water, if a. bathroom was in the house, or where there was rxtbath, of'-'washing under .difticnltie-s and' at; ioiig intervals. Such conditions werenot -conducive to the health ot tho children,' either morally or physically.: Tlie 'Willi paper in the hoUse.-i ; Was a «rcat germ carrier.-'said ."Nurse \Mawdo, . and she was 'confident'- that "a; deul -of - disease was- spread - t!iron.<jh its agency- She consider.?J" 'that -theusual voui'-roonied without:'.u 1 bathroom, which was tho common thing supplied bv landlords m Chnstchurch, should be "replaced bv model cottages, on the lines "of the English idea., provided with bathroom, whoro p-iroiits had a reasonable chance of keeping their children clean, and therefore better able to combat disease. Nurse Maude- was accorded a very hearty vote of thanks.