 | Muck Addinall, the last surviving specimen of Homo Defectus, wrote
in <1103087249.403083.90010@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>:
Nothing relevant to act-b.
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> (Report from the Select Committee on the Condition of the
> Working Classes of the Metropolis, pp 8-10. V & P. of the
> Legis. Ass. of N.S.W. 1859-60, Vol 4.)
>
> The house accomodation of the working classes of Sydney
> is admitted on all hands to be deplorably bad; even in the
> more recently erected dwellings the means of drainage and
> ventilation are almost entirely neglected, and many of the
> older tenements are so unfit for the occuptation of human
> beings, that one witness declares them to be "past remedy
> without a general fire". The opinions of several of the
> witnesses on this subject are quoted in their own words :-
>
> The Inspector General of Police: "Houses of very defective
> character, both as to cleanliness and ventilation."
>
> The Health Officer: "I think they are worse than in any
> part of the WORLD that I have seen-worse than in London."
>
> A block of twenty or twenty-five wretched hovels affords
> shelter for perhaps a hundred human beings. The rooms,
> two in number, are ten or eleven feet square, and scarecly
> high enough for a man to stand erect; the floor is lower than
> the ground outside; the rain comes in through the roof,
> and filth of all kinds washes in at the door; the court or
> yard that is common to all, is covered by a pollution
> that must be endured by all; and inside and out, everything is
> an object of disgust, and wears the look of loathsomeness that
> would terrify men away, if it were possible to meet with
> its resemblance not familiarises to their senses through
> being created by themselves.
>
> A den of two rooms is occupied by seven men and seven women;
> seventy human beings are found herded together in a common
> lodging house of six rooms; and no fewer than 315 Chinamen
> are lodged in one building. Leaving the haunts of vice and
> promiscuous association, still we cannot leave behind us
> the types of similar misery and disease.
>
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>
> See? That's real history,
Thanks for providing yet more documentary support for my contention
that the "lower orders" were rapaciously and mercilessly exploited
and oppressed regardless of race.
> unlike the fiction you bloody lot
> dream up to convince yourselves of your Godhood.
Get your hand off it, liar. You haven't yet shown that anything
I've said is based on fiction. (You haven't done too well with
others either, but then that's par for the course: you're a
fuckin' idiot.)
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Piss off, troll.
Ned
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