BREEDS REVOLT IN INDIA
two groups; those built of sunburned mud and dung bricks, and those of mud alone --.ethey consist of a single room, furnished with a trestle bed. I measured one; it was nine feet square; 20 people lived in it, sleeping in shifts.
In the heart of Calcutta itself
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"over 30,000 human beings sleep on these pavements every night...."
Some pertinent statistics from Hatch's report: Unemployment in Calcutta stands at 12.6 percent. In the past five years numbers of children not attending school have risen from 242,000 to 260,000. Only 54 percent of Calcutta is sewered.