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THE GOLDEN BOOK OF condition, but I hope now that there is hardly one on the estate who can complain of not being adequately housed A few days ago I visited two of the poorest Courts in the district of St. Pancras and Holborn, where I can assure you, my Lords, that the condition of the people, or rather of their dwellings, was perfectly disgraceful I cherish an earnest hope of measures of a drastic and thorough kind which may be the means of not only improving the dwellings of the poor, but of ameliorating their condition generally.(1884)

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