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Then seem' as how he might expect to have company some time or other, look how he fixed the bunks along the walls." With that Obed turned a button that none of them had thus far noticed, fastened on the wall Immediately a section slipped down exposing a cavity beyond that proved to be a regular sleeping bunk, fully capable of "housing" any ordinary person.
The fact that the Cardinal's name, after due consideration, was inserted in the Royal Commission on the Housing of the Poor immediately after that of the Prince of Wales and before Lord Salisbury's was the formal recognition of a social precedence which adroitness and judgment had already made his own.
Here in the peace and quiet of the pinking day this inroad of commercialism struck Steve suddenly both as slaughter and sacrilege; among the stalwart standing patriarchs and their bowed brethren he sat his horse staring frowningly at the little ugly clutter of buildings housing the invaders. "My beloved old granddad had his nerve with him," he grunted as he rode on into the tiny settlement.
The leaders of both parties have pledged to make the enactment of fair housing legislation a top priority of the incoming Congress. The need is pressing and a strengthened federal enforcement effort must be the primary method of resolution. The Federal criminal laws are often archaic, frequently contradictory and imprecise, and clearly in need of revision and codification.
If there were reason to believe that improved housing conditions such as are now assured to Bombay by the huge city improvement schemes which, under Sir George Lloyd's energetic impulse, are expanding the limits and transforming almost beyond recognition the appearance of the most congested quarters of the most congested of modern Indian cities, or even that increased wages would substantially affect the temper of Indian labour, one might look forward to the future in this respect with less apprehension.
There flourishes in Southern latitudes a minute creature called Dermatophilus penetrans, or the jigger, which can inflict great pain on barefooted people by housing itself under their toe-nails. This Colony had a plague of jiggers, and every expedient for defeating them had failed.
But we do not reach the root of the matter by medicine. No scientist can tell us how small-pox or tuberculosis or rheumatism first entered the world; but any scientist can tell us that by wrong living, wrong housing, wrong feeding, we can breed and spread and perpetuate disease.
The Ford Hospital is being worked out on somewhat similar lines, but because of the interruption of the war when it was given to the Government and became General Hospital No. 36, housing some fifteen hundred patients the work has not yet advanced to the point of absolutely definite results. I did not deliberately set out to build this hospital.
The prisons were over full just now; convents, monasteries, and public institutions had all been requisitioned by the Government for the housing of the hundreds of so-called traitors who had been arrested on the barest suspicion, or at the mere denunciation of an evil-wisher.
And there was one conclusion he could not evade namely, that while overcrowding, improvidence, extravagance, and vice explained the misery of some families, yet there were limits. For instance: On Manhattan Island no adequate housing can be obtained at less than twelve or fourteen dollars a month. That there is no health in a diet of bread and tea.
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