Another landlord in my constituency refuses to carry out repairs to a decrepit house inhabited by a bed-ridden old lady of 90.
It has never been our policy that we should take over the decrepit and dying industries.
Everybody knows the limitation in raising manpower for the industry and everybody knows that the mines are like the miners, getting old and decrepit.
Does he really believe that it has become decrepit in two years?
I believe that suffering must inevitably occur, quite apart from anything else, in sending these decrepit horses across the sea.
There we saw a decrepit old house with 130 women and children in the most abysmal and appalling conditions.
At this stage old and decrepit people are in a better position than the young, because old people can better withstand the temptations that accompany conversion.
This law stated that ' the aged and decrepit ' of every parish were to be supported by a tax, collected from all those who held property in the parish.
