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tricked into marriage by a married scoundrel, only regards her 

 injury as 'a misfortune' of a peculiar kind." 



One terrible consequence of immorality is shown in a fact 

 stated in Parliament, by Professor Playfair, in the debate on 

 Baby Farming. He said: "The loss of infant life, even 

 under the most favourable circumstances, was very great, 

 being about 15 or 16 per cent. That loss was doubled, the 

 moment infants were transferred from the hands of the mother 

 to those of strange nurses. If those children were illegitimate, 

 the loss of life, even in comparatively good homes, amounted 

 to 40 or 50 per cent. ; and when transferred to homes of a 

 worse character, the loss of life rose to about 80 or even 90 

 per cent." So surely do children die, when they are not 

 wanted to live ; and this has a physiological as well as moral 

 reason. In infancy, as in the womb, the child lives upon the 

 loving life of its mother. With that the most puny survive 

 without it the most robust perish. 



In the same debate, Mr. Mtmdella said that " two hun- 

 dred and seventy-six children had been found dead in the 

 areas and streets of London within twelve months." 



A strange revelation of immorality startled Parliament and 

 the respectable classes, a year or two ago, in the discussions on 

 the gang system of labour in the eastern counties of England. 

 Women, boys, and girls, working in gangs, 6000 in public 

 gangs; 20,000, or, as some computed, 60,000 in private gangs, 

 exhibited a grossness of language, and an open immorality of 

 conduct, which could be matched probably in no Christian 

 country. They are described as trooping along the roads for 

 miles, talking with each other, or saluting those they meet 

 with the vilest language, and singing abominable songs, while 

 their conduct was utterly shameless. 



The Saturday Review says " It is not the solitary fact of 

 adult female labour, or of juvenile female gangs, which causes- 

 female immorality. It is the concurrence of this with home 



