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Page 47
... cottages of the agricultural peasantry . † " The Committee found , in Church Lane , a population of 463 persons , using 90 bedsteads ; there was an average , therefore , of above five human beings to each bed . Their report is truly ...
... cottages of the agricultural peasantry . † " The Committee found , in Church Lane , a population of 463 persons , using 90 bedsteads ; there was an average , therefore , of above five human beings to each bed . Their report is truly ...
Page 49
... Cottages , Islington , on the 13th December , 1851 , occurs the death of a child , which is entered with the statement : " These cottages are in every respect unfit for habitation . " In the following week , on December 15th , at 4 ...
... Cottages , Islington , on the 13th December , 1851 , occurs the death of a child , which is entered with the statement : " These cottages are in every respect unfit for habitation . " In the following week , on December 15th , at 4 ...
Page 91
... cottages on their estates , and driven in the labourers to occupy small tenements in this , thus in- creasing , beyond due proportion , the population of the working classes . " Elsewhere , as a large landowner testifies , a noble earl ...
... cottages on their estates , and driven in the labourers to occupy small tenements in this , thus in- creasing , beyond due proportion , the population of the working classes . " Elsewhere , as a large landowner testifies , a noble earl ...
Page 123
... cottage accommodation of the poor in the agricultural districts of England . Additional historical causes of a low standard of female virtue may , perhaps , be found in the injurious influences of the bastardy law , which , with a ...
... cottage accommodation of the poor in the agricultural districts of England . Additional historical causes of a low standard of female virtue may , perhaps , be found in the injurious influences of the bastardy law , which , with a ...
Page 213
... cottages which would ensue if each landowner were permitted , in the language of one of their class in our own days , to do as he liked with his own . * * Dewes , Journal , p . 674. “ If , " said Cecil , “ we debar tillage ” ( that is ...
... cottages which would ensue if each landowner were permitted , in the language of one of their class in our own days , to do as he liked with his own . * * Dewes , Journal , p . 674. “ If , " said Cecil , “ we debar tillage ” ( that is ...
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