London Committee Of Deputies Of The British Jews

Author : Board of Deputies of British Jews
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656962990
Total Pages : 22 pages
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Download or read book The Aliens Bill, 1905: Report of London Committee of Deputies of the British Jews (Classic Reprint) written by Board of Deputies of British Jews and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Aliens Bill, 1905: Report of London Committee of Deputies of the British Jews As to (0) your Committee would point out that there is no legal definition in the Bill (or elsewhere) either of insanitary conditions or Of overcrowding. In your Committee's opinion there are, as a rule, three parties responsible for overcrowding: (1) the local authorities for not exercising their statutory powers of preventing it; (2) the immediate landlord for permitting and taking a profit from it and (3) the tenant, who, if a new alien, is possibly ignorant of the laws against overcrowding, which he never sees enforced. Under the Bill, all but one of these three parties, and that one the least blameworthy, namely, the alien, are to escape punishment. In the opinion of the Committee, the punishment itself is totally out of proportion to the offence. In a recent house-to-house survey made in an East End borough for the purpose of detecting overcrowding, most of the cases were found to be due to the presence of one, or at most two, children too many, in the rooms found to be over crowded. The advent Of one additional child into a russo-jewish family (which on arrival some few months ago had satisfied the most stringent requirements of the immigration board and which, but for the presence of such additional child, would have had the requisite space per person in their rooms to satisfy the sanitary authorities) will make the father liable to be treated as a rogue and a vagabond, until he breaks up his home, and, with his wife and family, delivers himself back into the hands of his oppressors. Nor is this all, for the fourth clause of the Bill imposes further punishments, not on the aliens this time, but on the shipping company, which, some six months before, had brought them to this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.