Abstract: The rapid rate of growth of contemporary African cities creates appalling and chronic overcrowding and deterioration of facilities available both within individual houses and in the cities themselves. The poor environmental conditions are inimical to health. Of recent, the environmental degradation has been aggravated by various kinds of pollution associated with the machine age. As the industrial development of the cities progresses, their inhabitants enter the urban-industrial labour force in large numbers. The tempo and tension of city life concomitant on the new social roles (particularly industrial employment) give city-dwellers repeated exp