. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . paid is around 75 cents a week. For instance, in the GraftonStreet dwellings a man can get a three room flat with a separate kitchen anda separate bath and toilet room, all taxes paid, for $1 a week. Of the 2,747 dwellings built by the Housing Commission 2,193 arereserved for persons dispossessed when the district was rebuilt. In BurlingtonStreet per cent of the people dispossessed moved into the new houseswhen completed. In Bevington Street, the proportion was The enterprise is run on business principles. Men who do not pay their 1106 HOUSING rent
. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . paid is around 75 cents a week. For instance, in the GraftonStreet dwellings a man can get a three room flat with a separate kitchen anda separate bath and toilet room, all taxes paid, for $1 a week. Of the 2,747 dwellings built by the Housing Commission 2,193 arereserved for persons dispossessed when the district was rebuilt. In BurlingtonStreet per cent of the people dispossessed moved into the new houseswhen completed. In Bevington Street, the proportion was The enterprise is run on business principles. Men who do not pay their 1106 HOUSING rent are thrown out. The bad debt losses are small. It is not a something-for-nothing scheme. You ask what has this to do with health? That question will be answeredlater in this chapter. PUNISHMENT FOR BAD HOUSING A committee once analyzed the Chicago ordinances relating to per cent of them related to fire only; 12 per cent to contagion,sewage and garbage and 3 per cent to supply of air and light. If the group. Fig. 465.—Water May Become Impure in Badly Located Wells from Surface Drainage. —contagion, sewage, and garbage—is split evenly between the welfare ofthe inhabitants and the welfare of the property and the 6 per cent addedto the 3 per cent of the third group we get a total of 9 per cent. Morethan nine times as much legislative attention has been put on fire protectionthan has been put on health protection. Theoretically, government is divided into three branches—administrative,legislative and judicial—and each must keep its hands off the work of theothers. It would not be fair to place all the blame on the legislative depart-ment and none on the other members of the triumvirate. Therefore, theexhibit shows why it costs so much to get bad housing corrected even whenoccasionally there is correction. A chart shows a case of bad housing complained of on June 27, first inspection was made by the health department on June 30. Badconditions
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