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but the middle-aged with families often have 

 to live under insanitary conditions. 



A few^ extracts from the Report (1910) of 

 one Medical Officer of Health taken from a 

 district not remote from London (the Guildford 

 Rural District) will suffice to show not only 

 the urgent need for new cottages, but also the 

 need to free them of farm tenure. 



" Albui^y. — Very little building has been 

 going on in this parish, and five cottages have 

 been closed within about the last two years. 

 . . . Two men working at Albury Heath have 

 to walk from Shalford daily, a distance of at 

 least four miles. A farmer's son, who is 

 married, has to walk at least two miles daily 

 to the farm. A block of three cottages 

 belonging to another farm are very old and 

 in an insanitary condition. 



" Wanhord. — Six cottages have been pulled 

 down during the last few years, and only two 

 of these are now being replaced. Rents are 

 from 3s. to 3s. 6d., but most of the cottages 

 go with the farms. The number of these is, 

 however, insufficient, as I heard of one man 

 who had to walk four miles daily to work ; 

 two others live in Puttenham, and a man and 

 wife live in a shed on the farm. 



