Excerpt from Macmillan S Magazine, 1884, Vol. 49 The landlords crammed human beings into these wretched dens, and the greater the overcrowding and the more wretched the buildings, the greater was the difficulty of obtaining them on any reasonable terms. There would really be no hardship, 'no injustice at all, so far as we can conceive, especially when regard is paid to the principles already adopted by the Legislature in many matters affecting morality, sobriety, and the public health - there would be no novel infringement upon the rights 'of pro perty - ii Parliament were to insist that when owners of inhabited houses per mitted their property to become liable to be condemned as unfit for human habitation and detrimental to the public health, they should be called upon to demolish the same, remove from the surface the materials, and rebuild thereupon a building to house as many as had been displaced, to the satisfaction of the local authority, and that upon his failing to do so after a reasonable lapse of time after notice, the ground should be acquired by the local authority at a value based solely on the ground itself, if indeed absolute forfeiture should not be demanded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.