Here I feel is the place for me to protest against the apathy which prevails with regard to the state of these public lodging houses. I have written to women M.P. ’s, women Country Councillors and I have urged on them the necessity for reform. I have received letters of courtesy meaning nothing; and I ask myself for what reason women are in politics if not to fight for decent conditions for their sex? I am not a feminist; that is to say I hold no brief for the view that man is the cause of injustice to woman. But I contend that it is a deliberate and unjustifiable injustice that the London County Council⁠—England’s premier civic authority⁠—should provide spacious, clean, comfortable lodging houses for me, replete with bathrooms and every modern hygienic appliance, and at the same time refuse to consider the supply of similar accommodation for women.