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necessary to be procured for them is full 

 employment, which will naturally follow an 

 increased demand for manufactured goods from 

 the agricultural body. Remunerating employ- 

 ment, however, we have seen is not all that is 

 necessary in order to secure the comfort and 

 happiness of the labouring man. Proper food, 

 clothing, and household accommodation are also 

 requisite and indispensable. In alluding to the 

 food of the agricultural labourer, we only 

 noticed that which is destined to supply the 

 wants of the stomach. But animal and vege- 

 table food, however well proportioned, are but 

 one of two elements necessary to supply the 

 wants of the body. The respiratory organs 

 require to be, if possible, more carefully ad- 

 ministered to than the other. 



The household accommodation appropriated 

 to this class of our labouring population is de- 

 plorable in the extreme, more especially as 

 regards ventilation. Nowhere is this more 

 conspicuously to be observed than in the me- 

 tropolis itself. The crowded state of London 

 is shameful. Half the iniquity and discontent- 

 ment, as well as half the bad health, re- 

 sult from the inferior character and crowded 



