say, the person in the West End has twice the
chance for life that the person has in the East
End. Talk of war ! The mortality in South Africa
and the Philippines fades away to insignificance.
Here, in the heart of peace, is where the blood is
being shed; and here not even the civilized rules
of warfare obtain, for the women and children and
babes in the arms are killed just as ferociously
as the men are killed. War! In England, every
year, 500,000 men, women, and children, engaged
in the various industries, are killed and disabled,
or are injured to disablement by disease.

In the West End eighteen per cent of the children
die before five years of age; in the East End fifty-five
per cent of the children die before five years of age.
And there are streets in London where, out of
every one hundred children born in a year, fifty
die during the next year; and of the fifty that
remain, twenty-five die before they are five
years old. Slaughter ! Herod did not do quite
so badly his was a mere fifty per cent bagatelle
mortality.

That industry causes greater havoc with human
life than battle does no better substantiation can be
given than the following extract from a recent re
port of the Liverpool Medical Officer, which is not
applicable to Liverpool alone:

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