Defective Housing and the Growth of Children (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Defective Housing and the Growth of Children

Houses is totally inadequate for the preser vation of health. The poetry of life does not exist for these dwellers in the rooms of our mean streets, which stretch for mile upon mile without variation in their squalid misery. In the East End of London, every here and there, there are squares where trees are planted. To allow of the trees living the houses are well set back, permitting the entry of sunlight and fresh air neces sary for the growth of the trees. Care is taken that the trees are planted at a sufficient distance from one another to prevent over crowding, which would stunt their growth. But in the dwellings where young life is to be brought up no such care is taken. Street upon street is crowded one upon another in apparently endless succession, to the exclusion of everything that makes for growth and health. We know that these conditions are inimical to health. An excellent criterion of the unhealthiness of the housing conditions is to be found in the incidence of tuberculosis, which increases in prevalence as the house accommoda tion becomes more limited and objectionable.

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In the process of reconstruction after the war there are many problems with which the country is faced which demand a speedy solution. The provision of work for all and a living wage for the worker, providing against periods of ill-health and unemployment, and the failing of the powers with old age, are questions which must be squarely faced and dealt with in a liberal and tolerant spirit. Not only must the worker be granted a living wage, but care must be taken that the expense of living does not increase with the rise in wages.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.