The workers, as a class, are being more and
more segregated by their economic masters; and
this process, with its jamming and overcrowding,
tends not so much toward immorality as immoral
ity. Here is an extract from a recent meeting of
the London County Council, terse and bald, but
with a wealth of horror to be read between the
lines:

Mr. Bruce asked the Chairman of the Public Health
Committee whether his attention had been called to a
number of cases of serious overcrowding in the East End.
In St. Georges-in-the-East a man and his wife and their
family of eight occupied one small room. This family
consisted of five daughters, aged twenty, seventeen, eight,
four, and an infant, and three sons, aged fifteen, thirteen,
and twelve. In Whitechapel a man and his wife and their
three daughters, aged sixteen, eight, and four, and two
sons, aged ten and twelve years, occupied a smaller room.
In Bethnal Green a man and his wife, with four sons, aged
twenty-three, twenty-one, nineteen, and sixteen, and two
daughters, aged fourteen and seven, were also found in
one room. He asked whether it was not the duty of the
various local authorities to prevent such serious over
crowding.

But with 900,000 people actually living under
illegal conditions, the authorities have their hands
full. When the overcrowded folk are ejected they
stray off into some other hole; and, as they move
their belongings by night, on hand-barrows (one

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