A cheap and nasty paper covers the wall, excepting where pieces have been torn away, and the broken walls are made of lath and plaster, to provide splendid cover for innumerable insects which remain in undisputed possession.
One floor much resembles another, but the basement and the top storey rooms are the worst of all.

We look through the window of a second floor back room, and see the out premises, but one look is sufficient.
We want to know something of the tenants, so we enter into conversation with them, and find them by no means reserved.
Room 1.

Husband and wife about thirty-five years of age, no children; husband has been ill for some months, during which the rent got behind.
When he was taken to the infirmary they lost their home altogether; she did washing and charing for a time, but ultimately got into the "House." When her husband got better, and was discharged from the infirmary, his old mates collected ten shillings for him, he took the room in which they now lived, and of course she joined him.
How did they live?
Well, it was hardly living; her husband looked round every day and managed to "pick up something," and she got a day or two days' work every week--their rent was always paid in advance.

What happened when her husband did not "pick up something" she did not say, but semi-starvation seemed the only alternative.
No.2.Husband, wife and a girl of seven engaged in making coarse paper flowers of lurid hue.

They had been in that room for six months; they sold the paper flowers in the streets, but being summer time they did not sell many.