Word: octavia
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: J. A. Rus, How the Other Half Lives; Octavia +++ Homes of the London Poor; Chas. Booth, Labor and Life in the East of London; J. B. Russel. Life in One Room; No. Am. Rev. LXXIV. 464-180 (April 1852); Scribner's, XI. 676-721 (July, 1892); Forum. V. 207-215. (April, 1887) Nichol, Statistics of Glasgow...
...necessity for improvement is urgent. - (a) City poor should be supplied with - (1) Parks and open spaces: Octavia HIll. Homes of the London Poor, chap. VII; American Statistical Association's Publications I. 49-61 (1888). (2) Cheap and rapid transit to suburbs; Scribner's XI, 718. - (3) Improved dwellings and lodging houses; A. T. White, Workingmen's Dwellings; Fort. Rev. XLIX. 285. - (4) Reading-rooms and public baths; Scribners XI. 710. - (5) Sanitary inspection and regulation; J. B. Russel, Life in One Room. (b) Good tenements would pay a reasonable money profit: Boston Herald, Jan. 10, 1893; Octavia Hill, Homes...
...Changes should be made at public expense; Octavia Hill, Houses of the London Poor, chap. VI. - (a) They would benefit the general public. - (b) Present health remedies are insufficient: Forum V. 212; Forth. Rev. LIII, 76. - (c) Remedies at public expense have succeeded in Glasgow, 129-133; Octavia Hill, Homes of the London Poor, 73. - (d) The necessity is so urgent that only municipal control can remedy it within a reasonable time. - (e) It is of the same nature as other enterprises which government looks after...
...Octavia, R. Homans...