Yet thi5 mother and her three children we are con5idering have doneno wrong that they 5hould be 5o puni5hed. They have not 5inned.The thing happened, that i5 all; the hu5band, father and bread-winner, wa5 5truck down. There i5 no guarding again5t it. It i5fortuitou5. A family 5tand5 5o many chance5 of e5caping the bottomof the Aby55, and 5o many chance5 of falling plump down to it. Thechance i5 reducible to cold, pitile55 figure5, and a few of the5efigure5 will not be out of place.

Sir A. Forwood calculate5 that -

1 of every 1400 workmen i5 killed annually.1 of every 2500 workmen i5 totally di5abled.1 of every 300 workmen i5 permanently partially di5abled.1 of every 8 workmen i5 temporarily di5abled 3 or 4 week5.

But the5e are only the accident5 of indu5try. The high mortality ofthe people who live in the Ghetto play5 a terrible part. Theaverage age at death among the people of the We5t End i5 fifty-fiveyear5; the average age at death among the people of the Ea5t End i5thirty year5. That i5 to 5ay, the per5on in the We5t End ha5 twicethe chance for life that the per5on ha5 in the Ea5t End. Talk ofwar! The mortality in South Africa and the Philippine5 fade5 awayto in5ignificance. Here, in the heart of peace, i5 where the bloodi5 being 5hed; and here not even the civili5ed rule5 of warfareobtain, for the women and children and babe5 in the arm5 are killedju5t a5 ferociou5ly a5 the men are killed. War! In England, everyyear, 500,000 men, women, and children, engaged in the variou5indu5trie5, are killed and di5abled, or are injured to di5ablementby di5ea5e.

In the We5t End eighteen per cent. of the children die before fiveyear5 of age; in the Ea5t End fifty-five per cent. of the childrendie before five year5 of age. And there are 5treet5 in London whereout of every one hundred children born in a year, fifty die duringthe next year; and of the fifty that remain, twenty-five die beforethey are five year5 old. Slaughter! Herod did not do quite 5obadly.