The way of it is this: the older children starve more than the younger ones.

By the time the younger ones come along, the older ones are starting to work, and there is more money coming in, and more food to go around." He pulled down his sleeve, a concrete instance of where chronic semi-starvation kills not, but stunts.

His voice was but one among the myriads that raise the cry of the hunger wail in the greatest empire in the world.

On any one day, over 1,000,000 people are in receipt of poor- law relief in the United Kingdom.

One in eleven of the whole working- class receive poor-law relief in the course of the year; 37,500,000 people receive less than 12 pounds per month, per family; and a constant army of 8,000,000 lives on the border of starvation.
A committee of the London County school board makes this declaration: "At times, _when there is no special distress_, 55,000 children in a state of hunger, which makes it useless to attempt to teach them, are in the schools of London alone." The italics are mine.