d got himself smothered with the vermin. The room was in a
shocking condition, and he had never seen anything like it. Everything
was absolutely covered with vermin."

The doctor said: "He found deceased lying across the fender on her back.
She had one garment and her stockings on. The body was quite alive with
vermin, and all the clothes in the room were absolutely grey with
insects. Deceased was very badly nourished and was very emaciated. She
had extensive sores on her legs, and her stockings were adherent to those
sores. The sores were the result of vermin."

A man present at the inquest wrote: "I had the evil fortune to see the
body of the unfortunate woman as it lay in the mortuary; and even now the
memory of that gruesome sight makes me shudder. There she lay in the
mortuary shell, so starved and emaciated that she was a mere bundle of
skin and bones. Her hair, which was matted with filth, was simply a nest
of vermin. Over her bony chest leaped and rolled hundreds, thousands,
myriads of vermin!"

If it is not good for your mother and my mother so to die, then it is not
good for this woman, whosoever's mother she might be, so to die.

Bishop Wilkinson, who has lived in Zululand, recently said, "No human of
an African village would allow such a promiscuous mixing of young men and
women, boys and girls." He had reference to the children of the
overcrowded folk, who at five have nothing to learn and much to unlearn
which they will never unlearn.

It is notorious that here in the Ghetto the houses of the poor are
greater profit earners than the mansions of the rich. Not only does the
poor worker have to live like a beast, but he pays proportionately more
for it than does the rich man for his spacious comfort. A class of house-
sweaters has been made possible by the competition of the poor for
houses. There are more people than there is room, and numbers are in the
workhouse because they cannot find shelter elsewhere. Not only are
houses let, but they are sublet, and sub-sublet down to the very rooms.

"A part of a room to let." This notice was posted a short while ago in a
window not five minutes' walk from St. James's Hall. The Rev. Hugh Price
Hughes is authority for the statement that beds are let on the
three-relay system--that is, three tenants to a bed, each occupying it
eight hours, so that it never grows cold; while the floor space
underneath the bed is likewise let on the three-relay syste