per week, and most of them incapable of regular, effective work.

Most of the social wreckage of city life is deposited in this stratum, which presents the problem of poverty in its most perplexed and darkest form.
For this class hangs as a burden on the shoulders of the more capable classes which stand just above it.

Mr.Booth writes of it-- "It may not be too much to say that if the whole of class B were swept out of existence, all the work they do could be done, together with their own work, by the men, women, and children of classes C and D; that all they earn and spend might be earned, and could very easily be spent, by the classes above them; that these classes, and especially class C, would be immensely better off, while no class, nor any industry, would suffer in the least." Class C consists of 75,000, or 8 per cent., subsisting on intermittent earnings of from 18s.

to 21s.

for a moderate- sized family.