The bitter cry of outcast London, an inquiry into the condition of the abject poor [by A. Mearns].1883 |
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... court after court , street after street . Secondly , there has been absolutely no exaggeration . It is a plain recital of plain facts . Indeed , no respectable printer would print , and First , the Yet certainly no decent family would ...
... court after court , street after street . Secondly , there has been absolutely no exaggeration . It is a plain recital of plain facts . Indeed , no respectable printer would print , and First , the Yet certainly no decent family would ...
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... courts reeking with poisonous and malodorous gases arising from accumulations of sewage and refuse scattered in all directions and often flowing beneath your feet ; courts , many of them which the sun never penetrates , which are never ...
... courts reeking with poisonous and malodorous gases arising from accumulations of sewage and refuse scattered in all directions and often flowing beneath your feet ; courts , many of them which the sun never penetrates , which are never ...
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... courts are filled with thieves , prostitutes and liberated convicts . In one street are 35 houses , 32 of which are known to be brothels . In another district are 43 of these houses , and 428 fallen women and girls , many of them not ...
... courts are filled with thieves , prostitutes and liberated convicts . In one street are 35 houses , 32 of which are known to be brothels . In another district are 43 of these houses , and 428 fallen women and girls , many of them not ...
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... courts behind them , and you will wonder no longer that it is crowded . With its brightness , its excite- ment , and its temporary forgetfulness of misery , it is a comparative heaven to tens of thousands . How can they be expected to ...
... courts behind them , and you will wonder no longer that it is crowded . With its brightness , its excite- ment , and its temporary forgetfulness of misery , it is a comparative heaven to tens of thousands . How can they be expected to ...
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... courts of which we have spoken , where a missionary was holding a meeting . Such results should rebuke our faithlessness . Even in these dark and noisome places the lamp of Life may be kindled ; even from these miry spots bright gems ...
... courts of which we have spoken , where a missionary was holding a meeting . Such results should rebuke our faithlessness . Even in these dark and noisome places the lamp of Life may be kindled ; even from these miry spots bright gems ...
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36 families abject poor amidst amongst the poor amongst these outcasts attend a place bitter cry boards broken chair brothels brothers and sisters cellar chapel child Christian Church clothing Collier's Rents condition consecutive houses courts crowded degradation denominational purpose dirt district dozen drink earn facts filthy gathered George's-in-the-East gin-palace girl going Gospel gross half heart hope house visitation husband immoral infant kitchen labour Leicester Square liberated convicts little children London Congregational Union look low lodging-houses lower depth match-boxes means metropolis misery Mission Hall missionary morning mother needs neglected neighbourhood never night number of women old bedstead old rag passage persons place of worship poison poor woman poverty prostitutes public-house receiver of stolen reeking refuge rescue rookeries scarcely seldom shelter shilling six children sleeping room stairs street tenant thieves things thousands thread three children undertaken vermin week whilst widow wonder worst wretched
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Стр. 1 - In another, nine brothers and sisters, from 29 years of age downwards, live, eat, and sleep together. Here is a mother who turns her children into the street in the early evening because she lets her room for immoral purposes until long after midnight, when the poor little wretches creep back again if they have not found some miserable shelter elsewhere. "Where there are beds they are simply heaps of dirty rags, ' shavings, or straw, but for the most part these miserable beings find rest only upon...
Стр. 1 - Every room in these rotten and reeking tenements houses a family, often two. In one cellar a sanitary inspector reports finding a father, mother, three children, and four pigs...
Стр. 4 - Then should we stand appalled to know, that where we generate disease to strike our children down and entail itself on unborn generations, there also we breed, by the same certain process, infancy that knows no innocence, youth without modesty or shame, maturity that is mature in nothing but in suffering and guilt, blasted old age that is a scandal on the form we bear.
Стр. 2 - ... in these habitations. Here you are choked as you enter by the air laden with particles of the superfluous fur pulled from the skins of rabbits, rats, dogs, and other animals in their preparation for the furrier. Here the smell of paste...
Стр. 5 - Jd. a gross is paid, the maker having to find his own fire for drying the boxes, and his own paste and string? Before he can gain as much as the young thief he must make 56 gross of match-boxes a week, or 1,296 a day. It is needless to say that this is impossible, for even adults can rarely make more than an average of half that number. How long then must the little hands toil before they can earn the price of the scantiest meal ! Women, for the work of trousers...
Стр. 5 - ... a pair, and have to find their own thread. " We ask a woman who is making tweed trousers, how much she can earn in a day. and are told one shilling. But what does a day mean to this poor soul? Seventeen hours 1 From five in the morning to ten at night — no pause for meals.
Стр. 5 - From five in the morning to ten at night — no pause for meals. She eats her crust and drinks a little tea as she works, making in very truth with her needle and thread not her living only, but her shroud. For making men's shirts these women are paid lOii. a dozen; lawn-tennis aprons, 3d. a dozen; and babies
Стр. 1 - Another apartment contains father, mother, and six children, two of whom are ill with scarlet fever. In another, nine brothers and sisters, from 29 years of age downwards, live, eat, and sleep together.
Стр. 9 - The child-misery that one beholds is the most heart-rending and appalling element in these discoveries ; and of this not the least is the misery inherited from the vice of drunken and dissolute parents, and manifest in the stunted, misshapen, and often loathsome objects that we constantly meet in these localities. From the beginning of their lives they are utterly neglected ; their bodies and rags are alive with vermin ; they are subjected to the most cruel treatment ; many of them have never seen...
Стр. 11 - State must make short work of this iniquitous traffic, and secure for the poorest the rights of citizenship ; the right to live in something better than fever dens ; the right to live as something better than the uncleanest of brute beasts.