HOME SOCIAL EVILS.

Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 402, 24 January 1872, Page 7

HOME SOCIAL EVILS.

The following is n description >A the social condition and sufferings of thousands in lar^e cities at home by Mr G-odw'n, F.R.S., of Bakehouse yard and E^npzer street, Leeds, and the courts in the nf-.itjh-bbrhood which he had recently visitpd. Mr Goodwin found iheie courts filled wirb. children, with sewers, and sickness. Tlje women said — and most respeciaMi; women they were—" We can do nothing : we have o'iven'up attempting 1 to lie cli'jm , wn abandon ourselves to circumstance*, and you see Us as We are." Mr Goodwin asked the J]uesfioh wliich he has asked five hundred tirhes and ofrener, v How raanv.filiildren have you?" "Three." . ''How many are dead ?" "'Five." That was the first "woman he 'met. Tn the second case: — "How many alive ?" "Two.*' "How irany dead?" "Seven." fn Bakehouse "yard the'en trance was so narrow that it was qtiife : impos.iiblp 'hey could act the coffins out,. How it was done Sir Godwin did not know. It was 2 fee r 6 in-.he's wide— 'a [l'assa^e leading to thi.-Sfi five houses around the' court, wim no air, with no sing-le house having a hack window, and with a paverhent'filled with rotten and rlecmn poking- riiut'er. Tliero was. added Mr Godwin, pvery cirehrh^tance ahoiit these courts to indiice b'ad'hpaltlr, and with bad health, came listlessness and demoralisation.