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Happy homes for working men, and how to get them
Happy homes for working men and how to get them Author:James Begg Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Tillicoultry, Ehyme, Peterhead, Elgin, Torres, Nairn, Hawick, Jedburgh, Galashiels, Selkirk, Banchory, Kirriemuir, Forfar, Dingwall. The movement was powerfully ... more »supported by Duncan M'Laren, Esq., now M.P. for Edinburgh, and others, and wisely managed by Mr William Lindsay of Aberdeen, the secretary. No doubt it was the means of diffusing much sound information upon the question, although the fruit, as usual, did not at once appear. Another movement was not without result. A Committee of the General Assembly of the Free Church was appointed on the subject in 1858, the author being made Convener; and since then five Eeports have been made, containing much information on the subject. The census of 1861, also, in which, after an earnest struggle, a column was inserted indicating the number of rooms in each house in Scotland, threw a flood of light on the sad state of Scotland in regard to house accommodation; whilst a visit paid to Birmingham, by William Chambers, Esq., the present Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and the interesting account which he subsequently gave of the self-reliant efforts of the English workmen, tended much to A number of social reformers worked hard to secure this important object. Unfortunately, it was only secured for Scotland, Sir George Cornwall Lewis refusing to have it for the three kingdoms ; and a great mass of the information remains buried in the Register Office. The substance of the information in regard to Scotland will be found in the Appendix ; and it is hoped that much more full information will be obtained in the census for 1871. See Appendix, No. I. the promotion of the great object in view. The Scotch, however, are proverbially slow to move, although, when they do move, they generally act with caution and vigour. We are now in a fair way to ...« less