are in a
burying club. Children fleabitten. Two have died. Food is
rather scanty. Wife _very_ quarrelsome and drunken. The boys
play truant often. Two were given free food and clothes two
winters ago, and this winter one has free dinners and clothes
given. A Mission has given cheap clothes. Evidence from
School-master, Police, Poor Law Officer, C.O.S. branch,
Church, School Charity, Sick Society, Children's Employment,
Factor, School Officer, Charity School, Pawnbroker and
Doctors.

"8. Fairly decent family; mother washes out, and man has very
early work. He drinks, and his employment is somewhat
irregular. A son in the country on a farm, and two dead. They
were married at 21 and 18. The food is erratic, the children
getting 'pieces' at dinner-time, or free school dinners; or
when mother comes home, soup with her. The children are rather
neglected, and the police give the parents an indifferent
character. The eldest child has Eustacian catarrh and
nasopharyngitis; glands. The second, enlarged uvula. Housing:
four in two very small rooms. Evidence from School-master,
Police, Parish Sister, Church, Factor and Doctors.

"9. Father an old soldier without a pension, who reads novels.
All the small children were found eating a large meal of ham
and eggs and strong tea after 8 p.m., he in bed at the time.
They have lapsed from thrift society membership. They are
extremely filthy and the man drinks. A Mission sells them meal
cheap. Wife 18 at marriage and one child died. They feed
pretty largely but unhealthily, and eat 'pieces' at
lunch-time. At time of visit, though very dirty, they were
tidier than ever found before. The eldest child has chronic
suppuration and large perforation of ear. Housing: five in two
rooms. Evidence from Police, Parish Sister, Factor, Soldiers'
Society, Charity School and Doctors.

"10. The man a carter, who drank to a certain extent, and died
some months after visit, when a Charity gave her help. She had
an illegitimate child and two others. He was careless, and
both neglected church-going. No medical evidence. Housing:
five in two rooms. Evidence from Police, two Churches, Parish
Sister, Employer and Charity School."

Sec. 2.

Now to the Socialist, as to any one who has caught any tinge of the
modern scientific spirit, these facts present