[5]. Westminster Review, 1825, p. 519.

[6]. Longmans, 1830.

[7]. Treatise on Fever, p. 324.

[8]. Modern investigations have proved, for instance, that contaminated water or milk will produce an epidemic as well as contaminated air. But all these poisons arise from bad sanitary conditions.—G. L.

[9]. Origin and Progress of Sanitary Reform. T. Jones Howell.

[10]. Cockburn's Life of Jeffrey, ii. 247.

[11]. Herman Southwood, born 1820, died 1897; Christina and Spencer, died in childhood.

[12]. Longmans, 1834.

[13]. M. Fielden, M.P., 'The Curse of the Factory System.'

[14]. This Commission, for considering the employment of children in factories, preceded by eleven years the one relating to their employment in mines alluded to in the Introduction.