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Sir Martin Cunway's bold Dr. W. Hateson, lecturing on advocacy of skyscrapers for biology hefure 1. C.C. teachers at London. *gigantic communal King's College, recently devoted buildings, thirty or forty storeys much of his lecture to the ques- in height, housing hundreds and tions of heredity. He mentioned possibly thousands of people," was that night blindness had been Found to meet with a good deal traced through eight generations, criticism, for most people shud- net skipping one. Other afflict- der at the thought of the reproduc- ions, including deformity, were ing in cur city of the gigantic sometimes Carried on from buildings of New York.
generation to generation under The objections to buildings curious circumstances, while the thirty or forty storeys high in prospect of feebleminded parents London are very great indeed.", having children who were not Mr. William Woodward stated similarly afflicted was practically recently in an interview with anil. So far as colour blindness! representative of the Obserer. was concerned, the results ob
Assuming."he said, "that the tained were important. A manj sol of London isque capable of might have no progeny so afflict- sustaining such monster build-ed, but there was no case repor ings, the question at once arises tend of a colout-blind whether they would be suitable for London. In my opinion their effect upon a city like ours would he simply disastrous.
woman
having a son with normal sight.
He was often questioned on! the subject of the effect of inter-] marriage, say, with a cousin. He "The height of a building should knew of no practical deduction obviously for light and air and which he was entitled to make architectural effect have true rela- but he would sooner marry his
ion to the thoroughfare which it cousin if ne knew her family.; fronts. The usual angle of forty-than marry someone else's cousin, five degrees, which means that about whom he knew nothing. the height of a building should not exceed the width of the street. should never be disregarded.
"Take, for example, the Picca- dilly Hotel, which I erected in conjunction with the late Mr.
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objectionable from the aesthetic and the practical point of view.
DANGERS OF FIRE. "Again, let up take our steps to Norman Shaw. This hotel is built Bethnal Green, and imagine there within the limits prescribed by in that so called slum area build- the Building Act of 1894, namely.ings of the type of tho e in Sir eighty feet in height from the Martin's mind. I am confident pavement to the parapet, with an that the effect upon the inhabit- addition of two storeys in the ants themselves, living in what roof, making the total height from must be such dark and dreary the payment level roughly one surroundings, would be exceed- hundred feet. The effect can be ingly depressing, to say nothing judged by the public, and I think of the risks should there ever they will agree that for a street, be a fire. Fire escapes would of the width of Regent-street the be attached, no doubt, to height is the very limit to which the buildings themselves, but buildings should be permitted to however adequate they might be, zo."
we know that by the present STREETS LIKE A TUNNEL."
system of supply water could not But in viewing Regent-street reach the upper storeys, and the at the present time, let the public panic which must ensue in any consider Nash's design, which, fire, would render these high except in the case of the Picca- buildings death-traps of the worst dilly "Hotel and the other. new description. buildings, is still to be seen there. "There are already in London In my opinion, this design of a buildings exceeding the height century ago gave to this great! prescribed by the Building Com- thoroughfare 3 lightness, amittee-Queen Anne's Mansions, beauty, and dignity which can- for example. Thesa mansions go not be surpassed.
to the very extreme limit of the Imagine in any street like height which buildings should be Regent-street--and I take permitted to reach even when Regent-strect only as an ex- they entirely front an open ample in Central London-the space. effect of realising Sir Martin "There have also been erected Conway's suggestion. It would in central London during the last make the street like a tunnel, and fifty years blocks of high build- would, I think, instead of attract. Lings for the working classes. Some ing people, repel them.
were put up by the Peabody trus-
"Let us now take ourselves to tees, some by the old Metropolitan the immediate vicinity of the Board of Works, and others, I Green Park. We know the exis- believe, by the London County tence of that carcase of a propos-Council in its early days. These ed hotel which has been there buildings, though nothing like since the beginning of the war, the height suggested by Sir Mart and we hear of a proposal for in are gloomy and depressing, some other buge hotel on the site and in some cases, where there is of Devonshire House. Imagine an open courtyard, which the sun there the gigantic buildings cannot enter and through which advocated by Sir Martin Conway. there is no free ventilation, the I think their effect
even effect upon the health of the before a space as open as the children who play there is highly Green Park would be equally detrimental."
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Is the rationing of rooms feasible solution of England's housing problems ?
Practical Labour women, sitting in, conference, have made A suggestion in favour of the innovation.
A Doily Chronicle represent- ative who made inquiries amongst housing experts, found the general opinion to be that such rationing could be carried out, but that rationing of houses would probably be the most practical measure of reform to adopt in the first place.
People who own but do not. occupy two, three or four houses might quite well be asked to share their surplus acccommodation with unfortunate people who are finding it impossible to get any kind of a roof to cover their heads," said one authority.
"Should room, rationing be resorted to, I do not think for a moment that any unreasonable measures would be in the mind of its advocates.
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On these could be based the necessary register, which would bave to be established if the suggestion came to be practically considered, although the figures would probably require revision.
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Mr. Herbert Morrison, secretary- of the London Labour party, sup- plied the Daily Chronicle re- presentative with the following figures relating to the Borough of St. Pancras. A similar table based on Westminister or Ken- sington would, of course, show a much higher total of accommod- ation to which the reform under consideration might be applied:
In St. Pancras there are 1,355 ten-room tenements---that 3. houses or flats containing ten- rooms. There are therefore 13,550 rooms available in this class, and 7,749 people are housed in them.
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5,058 people in St. Pancras are living in ane-room dwelling- places, and below that scale) there are the people who are living two or more to the room, with reference to whom no figures are available.
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