Salt Lake Democrat | 1885-08-11 | Page 1 | Across the Atlantic

ACROSS THE ATLANTIC The English Parliament to Discuss the Housing of the London Poor Thirteen Hundred Spaniards Wiped Out by Cholera Yesterday Preparations Around Herat and the Natives Damning the Russians Hoflng the London Poor LONDON August nSir Richard T Cross Home Secretary yesterday afternoon moved in the House of Common the second reading read-ing of the bill for housing the poor and staged that the object of the measure was to prevent he overcrowding of people in dwellings and also overcrowding of houses within a particular area He added hat he government intended to place the great prisons I pris-ons of the great metropolis outside of London Lon-don and utilize their present sites for the I construction thereon of artisans dwellings