She had extensive sores on her legs, and her stock
ings were adherent to those sores. The sores were
the result of vermin."

A man present at the inquest wrote: " I had the
evil fortune to see the body of the unfortunate
woman as it lay in the mortuary; and even now
the memory of that grewsome sight makes me
shudder. There she lay in the mortuary shell, so
starved and emaciated that she was a mere bundle
of skin and bones. Her hair, which was matted
with filth, was simply a nest of vermin. Over her
bony chest leaped and rolled hundreds, thousands,
myriads of vermin."

If it is not good for your mother and my mother
so to die, then it is not good for this woman, whoso-
ever s mother she might be, so to die.

Bishop Wilkinson, who has lived in Zululand,
recently said, " No headman of an African village
would allow such a promiscuous mixing of young
men and women, boys and girls." He had refer
ence to the children of the overcrowded folk, who
at five have nothing to learn and much to unlearn
which they will never unlearn.

It is notorious that here in the Ghetto the houses
of the poor are greater profit earners than the man
sions of the rich. Not only does the poor worker
have to live like a beast, but he pays proportionately
more for it than does the rich man for his spacious

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