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and sunshine, strangers to the sight of grass and 

 flowers and trees, without opportunity for healthy 

 recreation, familiarised with evil from early child- 

 hood, and surrounded by vice and temptation on 

 every hand. 



" All this inevitably tends to produce moral and 

 physical deterioration. It is almost impossible for 

 people to maintain a high standard of character 

 and physique where all the conditions are adverse, 

 and we have only to visit the places described in 

 order to see how disastrous are the results. Little 

 wonder if, while many battle bravely against their 

 surroundings and rise superior to them, an im- 

 mense number succumb and go to swell the mass 

 of vicious, criminal, and diseased humanity which 

 is a disgrace and menace to our country. 



" Further, it should be remembered that, even 

 where the conditions are far removed from those 

 just depicted, the lot of many is cast in those dis- 

 mal monotonous streets, so familiar in all our great 

 towns, where gardens are an impossibility, and 

 miles of brick and mortar intervene before the 

 country can be reached, and where those who 

 work during the day in office, factory, or shop, 

 must seek their recreation in the club, the theatre, 

 the reading-room, or the public-house, instead of 

 in the pure free air of the country." 



This extract is from the Booklet explaining 

 Mr. George Cadbury's motives in founding "The 

 Bourneville Village Trust/' and from thirty-three 

 years' life in Whitechapel I can endorse every 

 word of it. It is one of the advantages of living 



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