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Only One Conclusion 



" ' These figures show that the one-roomed child, 

 whether boy or girl, is always on the average distinctly 

 smaller and lighter than the two-roomed,' states the 

 report; ' and the two-roomed than the three-roomed; 

 and the three-roomed than the four-roomed. The num- 

 bers examined are so large, and the results are so uni- 

 form, that only one conclusion is possible : that the poor- 

 est child suffers most in nutrition and in growth. 



" ' It cannot be an accident that boys from one- 

 roomed houses should be 1 1.7 lb. lighter, on an average, 

 than boys from four-roomed houses, and 4.7 inches 

 smaller. Neither is it an accident that girls from one- 

 roomed houses, are, on the average, 14 lb. lighter, and 

 5.3 inches shorter than the girls from four-roomed 

 houses.' " 



And in the same issue there is this evidence from a 

 separate source and from a different part of the kingdom. 



One Child in every Two Dies 

 " Dr Francis J. Allan, medical officer of health for 

 Westminster, states in his annual report, that of 1,278 

 children born in 363 famihes during the past three years, 

 639, exactly one in every two, died before reaching the 

 age of one year." 



Hundreds of similar proofs of this terrible physical 

 degeneration of our unfortunate fellow countrjmien are 

 supphed, alas! from different directions, and there is any 

 amount of official proof that, height, weight and chest 

 measurement for age, the young of the British masses 



