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Show REFUGEES IN A FOOD SHED. The unsatisfactory and insanitary conditions condi-tions under which "transmigrant" aliens are conveyed through London on their way to New Tork and other places have Induced the London county -council to make representations repre-sentations to the Home office. In his report to the public health committee com-mittee the Bennondsey medical officer of health describes a visit he paid to Hay's wharf on August L He . found about 110 Jewish refugees from Russia who bad Just been landed from the steamship Sergei. . "They were being temporarily accommodated, accommo-dated, prior to removal across London - ia brakes and vans. In a long, low room, ordinarily ordi-narily used for storing food at this wharf. - "Thar waa no light or ventilation except what penetrated through the open doors at each end. the consequence being that when all these- people were congregated there the room was very much overcrowded, the atmosphere at-mosphere became very foul and etuffy and artificial light had to be used. There, waa nothing In the ahape-of sanitary sani-tary arrangementa, and the refugees bad to run about the-, yard looking for water to drink. The proprietors of the wharf when approached ap-proached on the subject stated that they" were already in communication with - the shipping company with the view of obtaining obtain-ing better . eanltary arrangements for the aliens during their stay on the wharf. London Lon-don Mail. . . . |