little time.
Mother hard-working, works out, home untidy owing to her being
out so much. She pays rent regularly, and does her best. An
elder boy groom, fed and clad by his master, sends home what
he can. Eldest boy does odd jobs, but seems a wastrel. Parish
gave 7/6 after father ill, and feeds four children now. Winter
of visit school dined five free daily, and clothed three, and
previous winter three had free dinners and two had clothes. A
school-boy earns. The twins are delicate. There are two
lodgers. The eldest child very dirty; the second, glands; the
third, knock-kneed, pigeon chest; very feeble, enlarged
radices. Three children have died. Housing: nine in three
rooms. Evidence from Police, Poor Law Officer, Parish Sister,
School Charity, Army Charity, Children's Employment, School
Officer, Factor, Pawnbroker and Doctors.

"5. The mother, a nice, clean, tidy woman, doing pretty well
by the children. They kept a little shop for a time, and she
used to do a day's charing now and then, but has too many
babies now. Parents married at 21 and 18 respectively; two
children dead and another expected. He reads papers a good
deal, gets them out of trains. This is his first spell of
regular work. Two boys sell papers, and a Mission gives cheap
meal. Food none too plentiful. One child gets free dinners.
The eldest child has glands; impetigo; thin and badly
nourished. The second, glands, hair lice and nits bad. The
third, boils on neck, glands, thin. The fourth, glands.
Housing: eight in two rooms. They are in two thrift societies.
Evidence from School-master, Police, Parish Sister, Club, Army
Charity, Charity School, Pawnbroker and Doctors.

"6. Father works in a shop in daytime, and in a public-house
at night. Rather soft; but wife industrious and energetic and
does her best. Children well fed and regular at school. Two
children have enlarged tonsils. They get no help, and belong
to two thrift societies. One of six children dead in ten years
of married life. Housing: seven in two rooms. Evidence from
Police, Doctors, Society, Church, Mission, Club, Headmistress,
Charity School and Pawnbrokers.

"7. A family where parents are much given to drink; father
invalided and being helped by a Sick Society, 3/- a week, and
Parish 5/- a week. Housing: five in two rooms. They