The men who mostly work on the river, or by the river, work hard when at it, for they have to work uncertain hours. The majority of the woemn and children are in rags, and seldom above the reach of starvation. Places and neighbourhoods like those of which we are speaking, and which we will presently notice, require instant parochial and Government inspection. The living, perforce, are huddled among the dying and the already dead, and are soon to be victims. Local mortuary-houses are an actual necessity, that contamination and contagion may be cut off.
Daily inspection is a necessity.
Another court visited is nearly a second edition of the first. We shall not tire our readers with pictures of poverty, many of which possess a uniform sameness in outline, but whose depths are of ever-varying hues, deeper, darker, deadlier. He is waked , as is the custom of his country, and two dips are burning on a deal table near his head. The burial society of which her poor husband had been a member for years, has disputed her claims. They have told her her husband was in arrear, and his benefit is forfeited, and that if they would like to exercise their right by rule, they might not give her one penny, but taking compassion upon her, and in view of her late husband having been a good-paying member once, they would allow her a moiety.