THE FOREST OF DEAN COAL-MINES. (To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.")
SIII,—Your correspondent blames the Government for the bad houses of the coal-miners in the Forest of Dean. He says that
" Where the State is owner no improvements can be expected from a bureaucratic Government, which cannot be expected to take large views of its responsibility as landowner for the ireprevenient of the social and moral conditions of the population."
But so far as the Forest of Dean is concerned he is wrong, and if he will inquire he will find that the majority of the coal-miners live on their own freeholds. A few years ago the Parliamentary Register for Dean Forest showed that among the mining population there were more voters on the Ownership List than on the List of Occupiers.—I am, Sir, &c., Lapworth, near Birmingham. H. K. HUDSON.
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