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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
Necessity of chawls for the Poor & middle class Jains
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Necessity of Chawls for the Poor &
Middle Class Jain jn Bombay.
With a view to revive the interest of the Jain Public on the above subject. I venture to take this opportunity of writing few lines as I have noticed with regret that this important question has not met with that sympathetic consideration among the wealthy Jains residing in the City of Bombay as it deserves. Bombay the Urbs Prima in Indis has over twenty thousand Jain Residents. The first step towards the moral and social welfare of a community is necesarily the Housing problem for its humbler classes without which it is futile to preach sanitation aud look for any material advancement cheap and sanitary dwellings besides appreciably diminishing the high percentage of death rate should tend to lighten the burden of living which is becoming dearer and dearer as time passes as a great portion of the income is spent for rents. Which might have been possibly saved to meet unforeseen difficulties such as sickness &c. It must be recognised that plague, cholera, consumption and a host of other diseases are directly the outcome of insanitary dwellings and surroundings. The following statistical figures of the mortality returns from the Annual Report of the Health Department of the Bombay Municipality for the year ending 31st, March 1916 show how frightful and terrible is the death rate among Jains in the city of Bombay as compared with that of other communities as well as the same far the whole city of Bombay which is 24. 17 per thousand in the year under reference
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