"A DISGRACE TO THE CITY."

West Coast Times, 6 September 1909, Page 1

"A DISGRACE TO THE CITY."

INSANITARY DWELLINGS IN

CHRISTCHURCH.

In giving evidence at an inquest regarding the death of a woman, sixtj'two years of age, a medical practitioner said she had died in a place that Avas a disgrace to the city, and he wished to make a protest against such a state of affairs being allowed to exist. The woman had been living with her husband in a building at the end of a right-of-way, a place that was in every sense of the word the most loathsome he had ever entered during the forty years that he. had been practising in Christchurch. He had seen a '; great many dwellings of a thoroughly uninviting character, hut he 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 not understand how it was that the city inspector allowed such a state of things to exist.