Slums of London.
It is stated that several hundred deaths occur annually m Loudou from overcrowding. Nor are these wretched habitations confined to London, or even to the cities. While exaraing the Aldrigan tin mine near St. Anstdl, Cornwall, I found that the foreman of the mine lived with 10 other persons, his grown up sons and daughters- all m one room, whe^ they ate, drank, slept, and performed all the offices of life ; cause, poverty. This was a sober, industrious man. His wages were about 60 cants a day. In the Black country men and women live together, separate, mate wtih other men and women, and all without the color of law or the faintest show of formality. Many a young woman hn.s been sold as a paramour to some brutalized peasant or workman for a pot of beer ; price, 2 pence. There was n late jcase at Halesowen, where a woman, after being married 29 years, was sold for a pot of beer.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 156, 30 May 1884, Page 2
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165Slums of London. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 156, 30 May 1884, Page 2
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