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has been redressed to some extent by the provision of community
centres.
Movements are afoot now to provide community centres on
Council estates in the district with workshops for repairing footwear
and furniture which, owing to noise cause nuisance in flats,
as well as facilities for cultural and social recreations and
amenities.
Numerous minor changes in labour conditions are continually
being made as small new factories are opened and others close.
There is, however, a definite increase in the demand for cleaners
for the large numbers of new offices erected or in process of building
across the river in Westminster, which is largely met by the
women population in Lambeth. It is a moot point to what extent
the increase in the family income resulting from the early morning
and late evening work done by the office cleaning mother is
counterbalanced by the deleterious effect upon her vitality—
reflected in the home—from prolonged hours of work and absence
at important times.