Housing up-to-date (companion volume to the Housing handbook) . ngerous to healthand life. Large numbers of the houses are in mean streets and courts,described in the following words by Dr. H. Bagster Wilson, MedicalSuperintendent of the Birmingham Mission :— These streets, from which every suggestion of beauty has visibly departed tillfamiliarity breeds a weary tolerance on the part of the observer who becomesaccustomed to meanness, sordidness, decaying walls, patched windows, unhingeddoors, nay, even to filthy and exposed public conveniences, and litter not only inevery corner where the wind
Housing up-to-date (companion volume to the Housing handbook) . ngerous to healthand life. Large numbers of the houses are in mean streets and courts,described in the following words by Dr. H. Bagster Wilson, MedicalSuperintendent of the Birmingham Mission :— These streets, from which every suggestion of beauty has visibly departed tillfamiliarity breeds a weary tolerance on the part of the observer who becomesaccustomed to meanness, sordidness, decaying walls, patched windows, unhingeddoors, nay, even to filthy and exposed public conveniences, and litter not only inevery corner where the wind can drift it, but in the streets themselves, which formno little part of the nursery accommodation of the children swarming little mites, what other play-ground have they ? I have seen them punched outand struck out, ill-clad, and munching at the last moment the crust of dry breadprovided to sustain life and to produce Englishmen and Englishwomen of noblestphysique, prepared to sing Home, Sweet , and Rule Bri/annyet ! ^ZSZOXCZS. sSurpjmg. •paAomsi ^s3arp[mghousinguptodatec00thom
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