of about fourteen hundred
school-children, that is to say, about eight hundred Scotch homes.
Remember they are _sample homes_. They are, as I have already
suggested by quoting authorities for London and York--and as any
district visitor will recognize--little worse and little better than
the bulk of poor people's homes in Scotland and England at the present
time. I am just going to copy down--not a selection, mind--but a
series of consecutive entries taken haphazard from this implacable
list. My last quotation was from cases 1, 2, 3 and so on; I've now
thrust my fingers among the pages and come upon numbers 191 and 192,
etc. Here they are, one after the other, just as they come in the
list:--

"191. A widow and child lodging with a married son. Three
grown-up people and three children occupy one room and
bed-closet. The widow leads a wandering life, and is
intemperate. The house is thoroughly bad and insanitary. The
child is pallid and delicate looking, and receives little
attention, for the mother is usually out working. He plays in
the streets. Five children are dead. Boy has glands and is
fleabitten. Evidence from Police, School Officer and Employer.

"192. A miserable home. Father dead. Mother and eldest son
careless and indifferent. Of the five children, the two eldest
are grown up. The elder girl is working, and she is of a
better type and might do well under better circumstances; she
looks overworked. The mother is supposed to char; she gets
parish relief, and one child earns out of school hours. Four
children are dead. The children at school are dirty and
ragged. The mother could get work if she did not drink. The
children at school get free dinners and clothing, and the
family is favourably reported on by the Church. The second
child impetigo; neck glands; body dirty. The third, glands;
dirty and fleabitten. Housing: six in two small rooms.
Evidence from Parish Sister, Parish Council, School Charity,
Police, Teacher, Children's Employment and School Officer.

"193. A widow, apparently respectable and well-doing, but may
drink. She must in any case have a struggle to maintain her
family, though she has much help from Parish, Church, etc. She
works out. The children at school are fed, and altogether a
large amount of charity must be received, as two Churches have
interested themselves in the matte