Letter from Clara Moser to Robert Chalmers, 3 June 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Clara Moser

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 National Archives of Ireland NAI-CSO-RP-1916-11716-3 https://letters1916.ie/item/3309 English Clara Moser 1916-06-03 Robert Chalmers Female Industry and Public Administration Industry and Public Administration

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 Dublin Watch Committee 29 South Anne StreetDublin. 3rd June 1916 R.Chalmers Esq.Under Secretary for Ireland Dear Sir, Now that the question of the rebuilding of the Sackville Streetarea is under consideration the members of the Housing Sub-Committeeof the Dublin Watch Committee are anxious to draw your particularattention to certain local conditions which are liable to be over--looked. We feel very strongly that any effort to rebuild thedemolished streets on a grand scale will be waste of time andmoney so long as the slum problem is left untouched. It is impossible to emphasise too strongly the corrodinginfluence of slums on the value of house property in Dublin. It isusual to find the most filthy areas behind, and often surrounded bythe best class of property. The result is obvious. The value ofthe houses in the neighbourhood drops and often the residentialhouses themselves become tenements while the stables at the backare used for human habitation. According to the report of the Royal Commission on HousingConditions in Dublin 1914 there were then 22,701 persons livingin houses unfit for human habitation and incapable of being madeso. So long as these places are allowed to exist their proximitywill gradually undermine the value of the best streets, and theywill breed in the minds of the inhabitants that form of discontentwhich ends in desperation and which must always be expected tobreak out in ruinous violence until the evil which causes it hasbeen completely removed. Yours faithfullyClara MoserHon.Secretary Housing Sub-Committeeof Dublin Watch Committee. Clara Moser Note from Clara Moser to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 1 November 1915Letter from Clara Moser to Robert Chalmers, 3 June 1916Letter from Clara Moser to Herbert Samuel, 3 June 1916Letter from Clara Moser to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 30 November 1915Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to Clara Moser, 5 June 1917Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to Clara Moser, 29 June 1917Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to Clara Moser, 8 January 1918