DWELLINGS FOR THE POOR.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
have to ask you to-day to lend me your aid on behalr of the Mansion House Council on the Dwellings of the Poor. This Council was initiated during Sir Robert Fowler's Mayoralty in 1883, and it has done invaluable work in grappling by voluntary effort with what has now come to be recognised as the most pressing need of the time. Lord Salisbury, Lord Rosebery, Cardinal Manning, the late Arch- bishop of Canterbury, the Chief Rabbi, and Lord Shaftesbury strongly supported the Council in its work, and heartily wished it God-speed. A careful examination of work done since the formation of the Council shows that not less than a hundred thousand cases of insanitary rooms and houses have been brought before the notice of the local authorities. Six public inquiries by the Local Government Board ordered by the Home Secretary, and three by the London County Council, have been held on the representations of this Council, with most valuable results. Our funds are very nearly exhausted, and if our work is to be continued, it is abso- lutely necessary that the public should be appealed to. Will you give us your powerful aid to bring about a generous
response P—I am, Sir, &c., Jxo.
Hon. Sec.
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