For notice, when rent, coals, oil, soap, and firewood are extracted from the weekly income, there remains a daily allowance for food of 4.5d.to each person; and that 4.5d.cannot be lessened by buying clothes without impairing the physical efficiency.
All of which is hard enough.

But the thing happens; the husband and father breaks his leg or his neck.

No 4.5d.a day per mouth for food is coming in; no halfpennyworth of bread per meal; and, at the end of the week, no six shillings for rent.

So out they must go, to the streets or the workhouse, or to a miserable den, somewhere, in which the mother will desperately endeavour to hold the family together on the ten shillings she may possibly be able to earn.
While in London there are 1,292,737 people who receive twenty-one shillings or less a week per family, it must be remembered that we have investigated a family of five living on a twenty-one shilling basis.
There are larger families, there are many families that live on less than twenty-one shillings, and there is much irregular employment.

The question naturally arises, How do _they_ live?
The answer is that they do not live.