Housing of the Poor. A Royal Commission to inquire into the condition of the working-classes sat in 1884 and 1885. Acts for facilitating improvement in the dwellings of the working-classes have been passed in 1868, 1875, and 1879. See GUINNESS, HILL, PEABODY; as also COTTAGE, LABOURERS, LODGING-HOUSE, POOR.
Housing of the Poor.
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 812
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