The Housing of the NationP. Allan & Company, Limited, 1928 - 193 pages |
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1st October acre Addison scheme agricultural annual assistance Authorities average back-to-back houses Becontree Bournville builders building industry building societies cent CHAPTER cost cottages County Councils demolition Dwellings Acquisition Acts economic employers England and Wales erected estimate existing factories figures garden city Glasgow Government Hertfordshire house-building houses built Housing Act Housing Financial Provisions housing problem housing reform Housing Rural Workers improvement increase insanitary houses labour land Local Authorities London London County Council Lord Salisbury Medical Officer ment Minister of Health Ministry Neville Chamberlain number of families number of houses Octavia Hill Officer of Health output overcrowding owners persons population powers private enterprise programme public utility societies re-housing rental repair rooms rural housing Scotland Section shortage slum slum areas slum-clearance Small Dwellings Acquisition standard storeys subsidy supply tenants tenements tion Town Planning Unhealthy Areas village Wheatley workers working-class houses
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Page x - Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Page 95 - ... in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation...
Page 26 - Any person or group of persons included in a separate return as being in separate occupation of any premises or part of premises is treated as a separate family for census purposes, lodgers being so treated only when returned as boarding separately and not otherwise.
Page 17 - ... habits and lives are what they are. Transplant them to-morrow to healthy and commodious homes, and they would pollute and destroy them.
Page vi - Hoc est summnm mei, caputque voti ; A little house, a quiet wife, Sufficient food to nourish life, Most perfect health, and free from harm, Convenient cloths to keep me warm. The liberty of foot, and mind, And grace the ways of God to find. This is the summe of my desire, Until I come unto heavens quire.
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Page 156 - London, there should be encouraged the starting of new industries and the removal of existing factories to garden cities which should be founded in the country where the inhabitants will live close to their work under the best possible conditions.
Page 152 - I see so pleasant a sight is : Oh that the good man could have taken his workmen with him! Taken his workmen with him ? I assure you that, after years of thought, I see no other remedy for the worst evils of city life. " If," says the old proverb, "the mountain will not come to Muhammed,then Muhammed must go to the mountain.
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Page 4 - The general deterioration in the health of the people is a worse feature of overcrowding even than the encouragement by it of infectious disease. It has the effect of reducing their stamina, and thus producing consumption and diseases arising from general debility of the system whereby life is shortened.