nation of the big private and municipal lodging-
houses and working-men s homes. Far from it.
They have remedied many of the atrocities attend
ant upon the irresponsible small doss-houses, and
they give the workman more for his money than he
ever received before; but that does not make them

[{A WORKMAN S HOME.}]

as habitable or wholesome as the dwelling-place of
a man should be who does his work in the world.

The little private doss-houses, as a rule, are un
mitigated horrors. I have slept in them, and I
know; but let me pass them by and confine myself
to the bigger and better ones. Not far from Mid
dlesex Street, Whitechapel, I entered such a house,

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