r. Three children dead.
Housing: three in two tiny rooms. Evidence from Church, Parish
Council, School Charity, Police, Parish Sister, Teacher,
Insurance and Factor.

"194. The father drinks, and, to a certain extent, the mother;
but the home is tidy and clean, and the rent is regularly
paid. Indeed, there is no sign of poverty. There is a daughter
who has got into trouble. Only two children out of nine are
alive. The father comes from the country and seems intelligent
enough, but he appears to have degenerated. They go to a
mission, it is believed for what they can get from it.
Housing: four in two rooms. Evidence from Club, Church, Factor
and Police.

"195. The husband is intemperate. The mother is quiet, but it
is feared that she drinks also. She seems to have lost control
of her little boy of seven. The parents married very young,
and the first child was born before the marriage. The man's
work is not regular, and probably things are not improving
with him. Still, the house is fairly comfortable, and they pay
club money regularly, and have a good police report. One child
has died. Housing: five in two rooms. Evidence from Parish
Sister, Police, Club, Employer, School-mistress and Factor.

"196. A filthy, dirty house. The most elementary notions of
cleanliness seem disregarded. The father's earnings are not
large, and the house is insanitary, but more might be made of
things if there were sobriety and thrift. There does not,
however, appear to be _great_ drunkenness, and five small
children must be difficult to bring up on the money coming in.
There are two women in the house. The eldest child dirty and
fleabitten. Housing: seven in two rooms. Evidence from Police,
Club, Employer, School-mistress and School Officer.

"197. The parents are thoroughly drunken and dissolute. They
have sunk almost to the lowest depths of social degradation.
There is no furniture in the house, and the five children are
neglected and starved. One boy earns a trifle out of school
hours. All accounts agree as to the character of the father
and mother, though they have not been in the hands of the
police. Second child has rickets, bronchitis, slight glands
and is bow-legged. Two children have died. Housing: seven in
two rooms. Evidence from Police, Parish Sister, Employer and
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