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284 opeIst council.
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To the Editoi* of the English Woman"*s J...
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To The Editor Of The English Woman*S Jou...
either spectab their wretehe the ility property or <| c condition omfort of . small , The and attorneys great making mass into it of impossible whose poor cottage hands for s they them in the have to country live fallen in are re as
meet seizures ; or upon else they loans are , whose cheap hi ly gh purchased interest tlie as small owners investments have been by unable persons to who have saved a little money , such as gentlemen ' s servants and otters , who
unfit thing of course to in dwell rep can airs in never , ; while so that afford the the scarcity to houses abate of them a in farthing the compels course " of the rent of poor a , short or tenant to time lay to out become remain any
there where is he a is greater . In the choice neig of hbourhood lodgings , hi of g towns her rents , where and wages consequentl are hi y g better her , and inin vestments rural distri may ct be s seem obtained s in hopeless small buildings unless . in But the the ease cause of those of improvement proprietors
who are more actuated very by a desire to , benefit the laborers , both physically and I am morall told y , that than there to secur are e some an adequat good schemes e return for for cottages their money published . by the
" Society for the Improvement of the Laboring Classes , " but I dare say you know these publications . I beg once more to sign myself ,
Yours very sincerely ,
November , 1859 . C . M . W .
284 Opeist Council.
284 _opeIst council .
To The Editoi* Of The English Woman"*S J...
To the Editoi _* of the English Woman" * s Journal .
Madam , specting In repl the y to building a request of in Cottages a late number for Agricultural of the Journal Laborers for information and the possi re-
bility of recovering due interest for the outlay , I beg to forward , you a few facts I know which of may two perh pairs aps be of of cott service ages , . built for laborers by the owner of a with brick basementweather
boarded Suffolk estate gable : ends they and are tiled of lath roofs and , they plaster are , sound a , healthy dwellings , ; the two single rooms tenement above contain thesethe s a kitchen largest of and which backhouse has a firep with lace oven ; ther and e copper is a garden , and
twenty double of fourteen - cottages five rods years were with the built repairs , a wood in were 1816 -shed , insignificant , and pump cost , and between , they other £ now 150 conveniences amount and £ 160 . to . These about For
is £ 2 to 10 s , per the annum £ 18 on annum an average for the . two They pairs let for of cottages £ 4 10 s . each as interest tenement on , £ that 300 spent There say give is s also just on six per the per same cent . estate , a single cottage of substantial red brick :, themand attics
for which stowage has three , it has rooms all on other the ground conveniences floor , three the same rooms as over the double , cottages , nearl and was £ 120 intended The for repairs a market have gardener been about . £ This 1 annuall was built yand in the 1840 rent , and without cost
y . , the These land rent £ 6 or s are £ 1 about per annum the same . average as those paid for cottages of a very
inferior descritiondeficient in size and comfort . The rents are paid up very one regularl defaulter y , so . that p This this , is Michaelmas quite as mu out ch rent of twenty as an - agricultural six occupier laborer s there was can pay not and ch
for out the of his leak extra y rickety harvest tenements work or , extra whose garden owners , never they repair pay quite them as but mu let
but them two fall rooms into , ruin and and have then only sell a few the yards materi of al _groxmd s , and ; which one was generall sold y to contain me for £ 11 which had been rented by the same man for twenty years at £ 5 per
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 284, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/68/
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