The dwellings of the poor and weekly wage-earners in and around towns / by T. Locke Worthington.

  • Worthington, T. Locke (Thomas Locke)
Date:
1983
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Credit: The dwellings of the poor and weekly wage-earners in and around towns / by T. Locke Worthington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sponsibility rests in their hands as to the proper housing of their fellow citizens. All similar cases should be made known to the local authorities, whose duty it is to attend to them, and to require the landlord to apply suitable remedies. Then again, not long ago a very bad instance of overcrowding was exposed by The Mansion House Council on the Dwellings of the Poor, in Gilbert Street, Clare Market, where in the third-floor front room an old man, three grown- up daughters, two children and a baby all dwelt: four adults and three children living and sleep- ing in one room 14 feet x 12 feet x 8 feet (1,344 cubic feet). In July, 1893, a large block of ill-constructed buildings for twenty-four families in Shoreditch was exposed by the parish authorities. The circumstances in which this hive of human beings had been living from 1891 to 1893 would surprise those who consider that at the present time there are no very bad cases of insanitary dwellings in London. In this case the buildings were not old, but the construc- tion w^as execrable and the drainage neglected.