. The wonderful century [microform] : its successes and its failures. Science; Nineteenth century; Vaccination; Civilization, Modern; Sciences; Dix-neuvième siècle; Vaccination; Civilisation moderne. ill. tlie first place, the most recent estimates of GifTcM, Mnl- liall, and Looni Levi, gave an average animal income of £77, or almost exactly 30s. a week, for each adnlt male of the working classes. Bnt great numbers of these, in- cluding all the skilled mechanics, , etc, get con- siderably more than this, so that the remainder must get less. Now, Mr. Charles Booth puis the " margin
. The wonderful century [microform] : its successes and its failures. Science; Nineteenth century; Vaccination; Civilization, Modern; Sciences; Dix-neuvième siècle; Vaccination; Civilisation moderne. ill. tlie first place, the most recent estimates of GifTcM, Mnl- liall, and Looni Levi, gave an average animal income of £77, or almost exactly 30s. a week, for each adnlt male of the working classes. Bnt great numbers of these, in- cluding all the skilled mechanics, , etc, get con- siderably more than this, so that the remainder must get less. Now, Mr. Charles Booth puis the " margin of poverty " in London at a guinea a week per family, the test being that less than this sum does not atl'ord suffi- cient of the absolute necessaries of life—food, clothing, a sanitary dwelling, and ami)le firing—to keep up health and strength: and he estimates that there are in London about 1,?>00,000 persons who live below this nnirgin; and if we add to these the inmates of w^orkhouses, prisons, hospitals, and asylums, we arrive at the fact that about one-third of the total ])opulation of London are living miserable, poverty-stricken lives, the bulk of them with grinding, hoj^eless toil, only modified by the still worse condition of want of employment, with its accom- paniments of harassing anxiety and partial starvation. And this is a true picture of wdiat exists in all our great 3ities, and to a somewhat less degree of intensity over the whole country. There is surely very little indica- tion here of any improvement in the condition of the peo])lo. Can it be maintained—has it ever been sug- gested—that in the early part of the century more than one-third of the inhabitants of London did not have sufficient of the bare necessaries of life^ In order that there may liave been any considerable improvement, an improvement in any degree connnensnrate with the vast increase of wealth, a f\ill hall of the entire population of London must then have lived in this
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