This report appeared in the local press on 29th August 1925 and refers to the previous year 1924, It starts on what I can only say is an optimistic note noting that Sheffield compares favourably with other industrial cities.
But a full reading of the report reveals a catalogue of misery and squalor that continued to affect swathes of Sheffield's inhabitants. Progress was been made in certain areas and not before time, But when phrases like "overcrowding in the city is deplorable" and conditions in the cutlery trade are "profoundly unsatisfactory" for the workers, a lot more needed doing and quickly. Sadly as we know this did not happen.
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