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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY

-1928.

NEW HOMES FOR LONDONERS.

PROGRESS OF GREAT LCC SCHEMES.

A £39,000,000 BILL.

“SIAMESE” TWINS.

SIR BERNARD SPILSBURY'S EVIDENCE.

INQUEST VERDICT.

It was stated at the inquest on the bodies of the Derbyshire' twin "Go to the housing estates of girls who died following shock of Greater London, and see for your- an operation ut Guy's Hospital, solves," is the advice of Lieuten- that the two were joined by the ant-Colonel Coeli B. Levita, vertex, or top of the head solely, Chairman of the Housing Com-with their bodies potating in mittee of the London County different directions. Council, to Londonora whe are Dr. Waldo, who held the inquiry, Interested in the housing problem, said that so far as he knew there or in the manner in which £39, were only 14 similar cases on re- 000,000 of their money is being cord. If left to grow up the sisters spent.

would, owing to the way in which they were joined, have been unable to sit er stand, and if one sat the other would be on Ita head with her. feet in the air.

At Colonel Levita's Invitation a number of Preas representatives made a tour of inspection of three of the Council's schemes north of the Thames.

"The notorious Ware-street," as It has been called, the centre of a sevon-acres clearance scheme in Hoxton, provided an example of work in a district of extreme squalor. Five blocks of tenemente have already taken the place of many of the miserable houses here; providing accommodation for 766 people, and another three are in course of erection.

In all, seven' blocks of five- storey buildings and six blocks of four-storey buildings, provid,

In order to feed the children in the baual way it involved holding one sister with the feet in the afr. If allowed to be, perpetually on their backs there would be a risk of hyperstatic pneumonia-÷a point in favour of an operation.

On the conclusion of the evidence verdict of "Death from shock due to misadventure" was return. cd. The children were born on the 10th inst, and 'died on the 22nd inst,

Mr.

The father, abricldayer's Inbourer, stated that when the children were brought to London by train for the purposes of skilled ing accommodation for. 2,408 per-surgical examination

à special sons. are to be put up,

Strange street names are to be compartment in the train had lo

be fitted for them. found in this gloomy region.

Evidence was given by "Land of Promise-place" is a typl. Samuel Carlofsky, house physician cal example--and, although these at Guy's Hospital, that one of the will be swept away, the blocks of children would be awake while the dwellings will be linked with the other was asleep. There had been past by being given names connec great difficulty in feeding the ted with archery, which was for-children as they lay on their backs. merly practised in this neighbour-It took three nurses to hold them hood.

when laid on their sides.

A Fine View.

House Surgeon's View.

A complete contrast with this Dr. Lancelot Bromley, surgeon Hoxton scheme is the Hornsey of the hospital, who performed the rise Estate, Islington, which con-operation on the children, said that sists of three fine blocks of dwell they had a separate blood supply, ings built on a series of terraces which showed that it was, not im- on a steep hillside, giving a splen-possible to separate them on this did view across London. Many account.

fruit trees have been preserved on The smaller child was remark- the terraces. There is accommo-ably wasted and any operation dation for 1,168 persons in 188 would almost certainly have meant leitings, and the weekly rents, in- denth. On the other hand, the clusive of rates and water charges, bigger child, although not doing range from 128, and 148. 3d. for well, seemed to have a reasonable two-room tenements to 22. 10d. chance of surviving.. for five-room tenements. •

The buildings are clean and niry, and, to judge by the happy bands of children playing in the grounds, the occupants are com pletely satisfied.

The brains, although separate in themselves, lay (Dr. Bromley added) in contact with each other, and the sudden alteration in pres- sure on the brain of the bigger child as the result of the necessary displacement in the operation, In my opinion, caused death.

The third catate visited recently was the large Watling Estate, 390 acres in extent, away in the Sir Bernard Spilsbury attributed to shock. country to the north of the Hen-death in both casos

don aerodrome, to the cast of Edg] "They were the declared) two in- ware-rond, Hendon. It is well dividuals in the sense that the worth seeing and easily reached, because the Charing Cross and out to Hampstead Tabe rans Burnt Oak Station, which is in the middle of the estate.

Here, overnight almont, a de- lightful garden city has spring up under the urge of the L.C.C. housing authorities. The two- storey wooden, brick, and steel cottages, built on wej!- wooded, undulating ground, with broad open spaces between them, form a landscape that is pleasing to the eye, and on closer inspection they prove to be coay dwelling places. Some 4,000 houses are to be placed on the Walling Estate, and although the first of these were completed as recently as April, 1927, by the end of December, 1927, as many as 1,373 houses were ready for occupation. Houses are

now be-

ing completed at the rate of 40 a week. When the estate is finish- ed there will be 13 miles of ronds, and 22 miles of sewers. Watling Estate will be completed by the end of 1928 or early in 1929.

A Ring.

The policy of the Council has been to place a ring of estates round London, into which people may flow from the over-crowded areas. With the exception of the biggest estate of allBecontree, in Essex, which is twelve miles from Charing Cross-all the ga tates are within the ten-miles radius. When they are completat their total population will be

essential organs were complete and separate and were in theory cap able of a separate existence. I should call them conjoined twins."

Mr. Waldo-If the smaller one

lind died would it have jeopardised the life of the other? Yes.

A verdict was returned as stated.

The amount of drinking done

by the younger generation isn't anything to write home about.

In allowing two appeals under

greater than that of Shefeld. the Moneylenders Act, Mr. A. M.

apart

The total cost of this great Langdon, the Recorder, at Salford, programme of post-war housing, decided that a man could apply for which provides for the erection of

a certificate under the name by some 50,000 houses and flats, is which he was generally known and estimated at nearly £36,000,000. individually recognised, as So far, about 23,000 houses and from a trade name which he did flats have been erected. In addi- not use in private life. In one case tion to these schemes, the Council before the Recorder the applicant has undertaken clearance and re- had departed from his father's construction work, estimated to name, changing to another name by cost some £3,000,000, in 23 un-deed poll, and in the other case the healthy areas in London, itself. applicant had used his adopted Houses occupied by more than name ever since he landed in Eng- 29,000 persons, have been, or will land 30 years ago. be shortly, demolished under

these schemes. About one-third

of this great task has been ac- Sir Montague Sharpe, K.C., the Chairman at Middlesex Seastons, complished,

Colonel Levita announced that expressed regret.at a verdict of the the foundation-stone of the first jury.I don't think you have 'done block of "skyscrapper". flats in your duty," he said. "Of course, Oasulston-street, Somers Town, you didn't know this man had spent St. Paneras, is to be laid on Feb. 25 years, in penal servitude; am ruary 1 by Mr. Neville Chamber ashamed of you. I can only regret Infn. These flats, in places nine your decision. I cannot do any storeys high, will be the tallest in thing." The jury had been absent.

for over an hour. “London”

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