The Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury K G As Social Reformer
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He inspected the cottages, and found them "filthy, close, indecent, unwholesome. " " I have passed my life, " he wrote, " in rating others for allowing rotten houses and immoral, unhealthy dwellings; and now I come into an estate rife with abominations . , , and A Model Village. 127 I have not a farthing to set them right. " So he borrowed money, raised mortgages, sold his plate and pictures, and after a desperate struggle, lasting for a quarter of a century, he left the village of Wimborne St.... Giles a model village. " The cottages are mostly semi-detached, and sur- rounded by pleasant little gardens, neatly kept and abounding in fruit trees, vegetables, and flowers. These cottages, admirable in their construction, and consisting of five or six rooms well planned for comfort, for convenience, and for health, are let at the low rent of is. A week, or one-sixteenth of the average wages of the labouring men who occupy them. " CHAPTER VIII. SANITATION, AND THE DWELLINGS OF THE POOR. IN 1838 a severe outbreak of disease occurred in the East End of London a part of Whitechapel, situated on the borders of a large and stagnant pond, being the locality most affected.
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