Science in Public Affairs 



and i from 3 is obtained the one-roomed tenement 

 yielding three of its occupants into the under- 

 taker's hands for every one that is taken from the 

 family who can afford to pay for three rooms. 

 The official figures show how many occupying 



only one room thus live to die. In London 

 330,000 call one room "home." In England and 

 Wales 3,000,000 are living in what is technically 

 known as an "overcrowded" condition, namely, 

 more than two persons in one room, and con- 

 sequently the babies die. In England and Wales 

 the death-rate is 16.2 ; in Liverpool, 22.5, 196 out 

 of every 1000 of its infants leaving this difficult 

 world before their first birthday ; and Burnley 

 loses still more, for there 229 out of every 1000 

 leave their mothers mourning. "But death," as 

 my brother-in-law Dr. Ernest Hart used to say, 

 " is not the worst evil of insanitary conditions and 

 inhuman surroundings ; it is but an evidence of 

 a lower standard of life." Where the death-rate 



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