We are told that "the East End dram-drinker has developed a new taste; it is for fusil-oil.

It has even been said that ripe old whisky ten years old, drank in equal quantities, would probably import a tone of sobriety to the densely- populated quarters of East London."[9] Sec.6.Irregularity of work .-- One more aspect of city poverty demands a word.

Low wages are responsible in large measure for the evils with which we have dealt.

In the life of the lower grades of labour there is a worse thing than low wages--that is irregular employment.

The causes of such irregularity, partly inherent in the nature of the work, partly the results of trade fluctuations, will appear later.