Yet, from the Registrar-General's Report for 1886, the following figures are taken:- Out of 81,951 deaths in London (1884):- In workhouses 9,909 In hospitals 6,559 In lunatic asylums 278 Total in public refuges 16,746 Commenting on these figures, a Fabian writer says: "Considering that comparatively few of these are children, it is probable that one in every three London adults will be driven into one of these refuges to die, and the proportion in the case of the manual labour class must of course be still larger." These figures serve somewhat to indicate the proximity of the average worker to pauperism.

Various things make pauperism.

An advertisement, for instance, such as this, appearing in yesterday morning's paper:- "Clerk wanted, with knowledge of shorthand, typewriting, and invoicing: wages ten shillings ($2.50) a week.

Apply by letter," &c.
And in to-day's paper I read of a clerk, thirty-five years of age and an inmate of a London workhouse, brought before a magistrate for non-performance of task.

He claimed that he had done his various tasks since he had been an inmate; but when the master set him to breaking stones, his hands blistered, and he could not finish the task.