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condition, but I hope now that there is hardly one on the estate who can complain of not being adequately housed. . . . A few days ago I visited two of the poorest Courts in the district of St. Pancras and Holborn, where I can assure you, my Lords, that the condition of the people, or rather of their dwellings, was perfectly disgraceful. . . I cherish an earnest hope. . . of measures of a drastic and thorough kind which may be the means of not only improving the dwellings of the poor, but of ameliorating their condition generally.
(1884)
Nor were his efforts confined to London only: he had acquainted himself with the hideous unsanitariness of too many cottages in the loveliest villages of England, and had personally done his bit to remedy the existing state of things.
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