Another Blow for Life ...

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Allen, 1864 - 129 էջ
On sanitary conditions among the poor of the metropolis.

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Էջ 59 - A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town!
Էջ 126 - O flowers, That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand, From the first opening bud, and gave ye names, Who now shall rear you to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount...
Էջ 80 - But go to ! thy love Shall chant itself its own beatitudes, After its own life-working. A child's kiss, Set on thy sighing lips, shall make thee glad: A poor man, served by thee, shall make thee rich ; An old man, helped by thee, shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.
Էջ 34 - A child •was found dead in Brownlow Street, and on inquiry, it was learnt that the mother, a widow, and six children slept in one bed in a small room. The death of the child was attributed to the bedclothes." " In a model lodging house for families, a father, who with his wife and one child occupies one room, has accommodated six of his nine other children the crossway on two camp bedsteads, while three elder girls, one sixteen years old, sleep on a small bedstead near.
Էջ 41 - Many of the workrooms of fashionable milliners are similarly overcrowded, jas are those where young girls are engaged in bookstitching. Take, as an example, a house in Fleet Street, looked at not long ago. The passage is narrow ; a door in it shuts -with a spring ; the staircase is confined, and without ventilation ; the atmosphere is steamy, and smells of glue ; ascending, it is seen that all the doors shut with springs. In the first room looked into, forty young women and girls were sorting and...
Էջ 128 - Beautiful things are suggestive of a purer and higher life, and fill us with a mingled love and fear. They have a graciousness that wins us, and an excellence to which we involuntarily do reverence. . If you are poor, yet pure and modestly aspiring, keep a vase of flowers on your table, and they will help to maintain your dignity, and secure for you consideration and delicacy of behaviour.
Էջ 6 - We have stated that the remuneration of the working people of this country has been steadily progressive. Macaulay has shown that towards the close of the seventeenth century all classes were paid less wages than they are now. Agricultural labourers received only from 2s. to 3s. a week with food, or from 4s. to 5s. without. In 1661 the justices at Chelmsford fixed the rate at 6*.
Էջ 58 - And on her banks Augusta* rose in gold. Around his throne the sea-born brothers stood, Who swell with tributary urns his flood, First the...
Էջ 34 - I found a hole under the stairs made the sleeping-place for three persons, twentyone, seventeen, and fourteen years of age. It was intended originally for the reception of coals ; it is not more than four feet deep, and the height, of course, diminishes to nothing as the steps descend. When the door is closed there are only seven small gimlet-holes in the stairs for ventilation. Is it surprising that fevers break out under such circumstances ? One is struck, sometimes, with the strange contrivances...
Էջ 32 - In addition to the actual deaths caused by over-crowding, we must add to the mass of misery accruing from it, the nonfatal diseases and the general debility and lack of vigorous life so common in our large centres of industry. "Over-crowding," says Mr. Godwin, "means want of pure air; and want of pure air means debility, continued fever, death, widowhood, orphanage, pauperism, and money loss to the living.

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