The housing of the people, with special reference to Dublin
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Dawson, Charles. 'The housing of the people, with special reference to Dublin'. - Dublin: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland,Vol. XI Part LXXXI, 1900/1901, pp45-56Download Item:
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Abstract:
There is no necessity to apologize for introducing this subject
to the notice of the Society. It fills 'the public mind almost
beyond any other domestic question. We know, from recent
utterances, 'that it occupies the attention of statesmen, and
even the King, who acted on the Royal Commission in 1885,
has, since his accession to the throne, more than once introduced
the subject into his speeches. It is, therefore,
quite clear from this that, notwithstanding what has been done
by legislation, by local bodies, by philanthropy and commercial
enterprise, the solution of the question of the housing
of the people has not, as yet, been arrived at. I do not use
the word working classes, I prefer the term used by Sir Sydney
Waterlow, "The Weekly Wage Classes." With few exceptions
the most of us are workers, but the difficulty of finding suitable
house accommodation, though there is sometimes some difficulty,
is not so great with us as with those who are at physical work all
day, or looking for it, whose pay is weekly, in many cases
small and frequently precarious, and who have neither time nor
money to fight their own battle. In fact, in this matter they are
helpless.
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Read Wednesday, 27th March, 1901
Author: Dawson, Charles
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Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of IrelandVol. XI Part LXXXI 1900/1901
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Tenement buildings, Poverty, DublinISSN:
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